typosphere

English

Etymology

From typo- +‎ -sphere.

Noun

typosphere (singular only)

1. (informal) The community of typewriter enthusiasts.
   • 2011 March 31, Jessica Bruder, “The Digital Generation Rediscovers the Magic of Manual Typewriters”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-18:

     Matt Cidoni, 16, of East Brunswick, N.J., keeps a picture of his favorite machine, a Royal No. 10, on his iPod Touch so he can show it off to friends. Online, he is a proud member of the "typosphere," a global community of typewriter geeks. Like many of them, he enjoys "typecasting," or tapping out typewritten messages, which he scans and posts to his Web site, Adventures in Typewriterdom.

   • 2015 November 30, Rebecca Rego Barry, “Typists of the world, unite! A new book looks inside the ’typosphere’”, in The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-22:

     Having collected typewriters for more than 20 years, Polt decided to join the "typosphere" and start "typecasting". Simply put, he uses a typewriter to capture his thoughts, then scans the page and uploads it to his blog.

   • 2024 March 16, Mark Lawrence Schrad, “Where My Continental Standard Spent the War”, in Slate‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-18:

     It is ironic, then, how social media has both supercharged and democratized the hobby, whose denizens have gone from a small handful of (predominantly older, white, male, American) collectors to a truly global "typosphere" of individuals of every race, religion, gender orientation, and political persuasion, whose uniting feature is an obsession with these antiquated writing machines.

See also

• typecasting