Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86]

• thallamabond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks like most typewriters before 1973

  Typewriters before this time did possess a backspace key, but it simply moved the carriage back one character space so the typist could use whiteout to remove a mistake. When struck, the correction key of IBM Selectric II would use internal correction tape to remove the mistake and replace it with a letter key manually chosen by the user

  Read more at the ANSI Blog: Invention of the Backspace Key blog.ansi.org/?p=7178

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  • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    but it simply moved the carriage back one character space so the typist could use whiteout to remove a mistake

    So use whiteout!

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    • thallamabond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This works fine for informal things, like a correspondence with a friend, inter office communication, or perhaps a rambling Zine. However, for something formal like a resume, this would be bad etiquette.

      Just a side note, If your mistake was found after removing your paper from the typewriter, good luck getting the paper re-aligned on any typewriter without decent detents built into the platen.

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• shaserlark@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Idk man I’ve never even seen a typewriter in my life they could tell me anything lol

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