Digital Typewriter

Write for keeps. No backspace. No undo.

There's something honest about having to live with your errors and accidents. 

Digital tools have removed risk, stakes, and craftsmanship from the act of creation. See this article.

How much more carefully would you type - will you type - when you can't backspace? Just writing that past sentence caused three typos. But we write differently when there's no undo, and when errors have higher cost. And there's a time and place for that level of care.

Process

• Website built primarily in javascript

• Text box listens only to alphanumeric keys and prints them below on the "page"

• Styling with CSS

• Hosted on github and linked from typewriter.wyattroy.com