College Student Brings Mechanical Typewriter to Class

By John Farrier in Gadgets, Hacks & Mods, Video Clips on Dec 11, 2009 at 11:10 am


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Many college students use laptop computers to take notes during class. The student in this video, as a prank, took an old mechanical typewriter to a lecture for that purpose. The professor gets quite perturbed and asks him to mute the sound effects.

via Gizmodo


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  1. Foreigner1
    Dec 11th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    FAT :lol: !!! Would have wanted to be there when he did that! :-D

  2. SteamPunk Al.
    Dec 11th, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Tee-hee!

    O! How droll it is to prank in the Information Age…

    Haw-haw.

  3. Alan
    Dec 11th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    OTPC! (One Typewriter Per Child)

  4. Video Game Dork
    Dec 11th, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    he decided to take off before the professor could determine what student he was, it seems. Having smaller class sizes at a college can be a blessing and, sometimes, a (slackers) curse. :P

  5. Gregg Painter
    Dec 12th, 2009 at 12:27 am

    I have a high school student, who draws wonderful Bruce McCall style retro work (although he was not familiar with McCall!), who sometimes brings a manual typewriter to class. No one cares. It’s an arts school.

  6. ted
    Dec 14th, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Stupid. They used to take notes in class and then type them up later, if they had to. Dragging the typewriter into class is disruptive and rude to the professor and to the students who actually want to hear the lecture.

  7. The Slapster
    Dec 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    Lighten up TED!


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