Happy Birthday to the Typewriter! [VIDEO]

Though it is nearly extinct, it is a must to celebrate the birth of the typewriter. After all, it did make the computer keyboard possible.

This week in 1868, the patent for the typewriter was granted. Did you know that the first portable electric typewriter was introduced in 1957 in Syracuse? Yep! The Smith-Corona Company launched them.

Some other fascinating facts:

1. The first typewriter was the size of a dining room table. Huh. Sounds like the first computer.

2.  A gun company was the first to market the typewriter: Remington Arms.

3. No real thought went into the arrangement of the keys. They were placed so that sales people could lean over and quickly spell a word using the firs row.

Personally, I miss my Smith-Corona. If it wasn't for that baby, I wouldn't have graduated college! The sad thing is, today's kids have no clue what a typewriter is.

This is for the kids, they may need to know someday: