yes
They typed on mechanical typewriters.
Based on my own experience, people were still using typewriters into the 90's. Not because it was cool, but because computers were still pretty lame and not everyone had one.
Yes indeed. They did have typewriters back then.
It has never stopped. Many people still use typewriters.
He collects typewriters
No. Double spaces after periods were used when typewriters were used to create a break between sentences. Today the font designers handle that automatically so it is not necessary. It is just a carry over from when people who used typewriters taught people how to type on computers.
Royal McBee the maker of Royal electric typewriters claimed to be the world's largest maker of typewriters.
Victorian typewriters were used for typing documents by pressing keys to imprint ink on paper. They allowed for faster and more legible typing compared to handwritten documents. These typewriters have a different design and mechanism compared to modern typewriters and computers.
Electric typewriters began to become a regular thing in the 1970's, and, believe it or not, some people used them all the way until the 1990s when computers became a regular device (though most offices had computers installed in the 1980s). The final typewriters were much more advanced than you might think-- some electric typewriters from the late 1980s had LCD displays and printers that could be plugged in. It was not the typical, loud, clacky typewriter of the early 20th century.
They would write with writing utensils, i.e. pencils, pens, quills
Yes. The first typewriters were used in the late 19th century.