Ten years of typewriters

As regular Machines of Loving Grace visitors might have noticed from the sidebar, 2009 is its tenth year on the ‘Web. I thought it would be fun* to hop into the Wayback Machine and visit the site as it originally looked when it first hit the Internet back in 1999. One page, twelve typewriters, zero graphics.

Also brand spanky new for 2009, Machines of Loving Grace finally has its own domain name! Now instead of navigating to that awkward sevenels.net subdirectory, you can point your browser directly to http://machinesoflovinggrace.com. Be sure to update your del.icio.us!

Two new pages recently up: All About the Remie Scout, the most comprehensive coverage anywhere of Remington’s cute little Depression-era portables family, and an expansive table of hard-to-find Remington serial number and production info courtesy of the Hagley Museum and Library.

Finally, visit the new MoLG forum! It’s just like the old MoLG Yahoo group, only much, much better. It’s not just about typewriters anymore; it’s for fans of all sorts of retrotech.

* I thought it would be fun, but the quest ended up entailing unearthing boxes of poorly-labeled floppy disks, finding and reconnecting the Mac’s Superdrive, and determining which of the many different copies of the page was the true original.