When is World Typing Day?
Sunday January 8thEvery year on January 8th, World Typing Day celebrates this written form of communication that guarantees speed, accuracy, and effectiveness. Typists can also enter typing competitions on a day for typists.
The Typewriter's Past The Typewriter's History is a tale of the typewriter.
Since Christopher Latham Sholes invented one in 1868, typewriting machines have existed for as long as Christopher Latham Sholes invented one. Sholes, a printer and journalist from Wisconsin, was a printer and journalist from Wisconsin. The typewriter has had the QWERTY keyboard layout for almost every since its inception. The order of the first six keys on the keyboard's top left portion of the keyboard is QWERTY.
Many well-known writers in the late 1800s used the typewriter to write their manuscripts. Ian Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, and Mark Twain are among these writers' writers' books. It wasn't just writers who used these handy little computers. The typewriter was discovered by Office workers as an indispensable tool for writing and communication. Typewriters became less cumbersome, lighter, and simpler to use over the years. A typist's speed and accuracy were enhanced by improvements to the typewriter.
IBM invented the first commercial typewriter in 1935. IBM made further strides on the typewriter in 1964 by introducing the first word processor. Computers began to replace typewriters in the 1980s. However, typing skills were, and continue to be, useful for writing and working on the computer.
