Museu de la Tècnica

Re:Museu de la Tècnica by schoen on Saturday October 29, 2016 @11:34PM (#12828026)

For people who didn't want to click "Show more" a lot, it's a super-enthusiastic story, in tweet form, about accidentally stumbling upon the world's largest typewriter museum in a small town in Spain -- by someone who loves typewriters. If you like typewriters or enthusiasm, you might like reading the story.

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Re:Museu de la Tècnica by prawn on Sunday October 30, 2016 @01:59AM (#12828384)

And submitted to HN by someone who was in Spain (from Australia) just a few days prior to this and would've loved to have visited this museum had I known it existed!

I came across the tweet-story via William Gibson who is very prolific on Twitter (@greatdismal).

I read it in the older OSX Twitter app and didn't have to continually click to unveil more.

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Re:Museu de la Tècnica by empath75 on Sunday October 30, 2016 @07:58AM (#12829307)

Neuromancer was written on a typewriter and William Gibson had never even used a computer before.

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Re:Museu de la Tècnica by hota_mazi on Sunday October 30, 2016 @01:59AM (#12828381)

Yeah seriously. Happy for OP but telling stories on Twitter? Come on. Post on a snippet web site and link to it from Twitter or something.

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Re:Museu de la Tècnica by Siemer on Sunday October 30, 2016 @06:50AM (#12829104)

I don't use Twitter, but I though it gave the story a stronger 'live' feeling, making it more engaging. It made it easier to share the feeling of joyful discovery the author experienced.

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Re:Museu de la Tècnica by wott on Sunday October 30, 2016 @08:21AM (#12829396)

> It made it easier to share the feeling of joyful discovery the author experienced.

I gave up when the author's tweets, which were already a bit painful to follow, gave way to random comments by others or the author himself and disappeared.

So, I just learned that this is a guy who, when in front of a traffic sign, stops to take a picture of it, and needs to waste time with Google Map to find his path because OMG-I-don't-have-Internet-on-my-phone-what-am-I-gonna-do-I-feel-like-an-adventurer-now, instead of just following the sign, which is why the sign is made for.

I can't wait for Twitter to collapse, honestly. It is a nightmare of usability, of usefulness, of readability and a dozen more *-abilities. That someone purposefully chooses to write on this medium is beyond me.

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Re:Museu de la Tècnica by ishi on Sunday October 30, 2016 @05:46AM (#12828908)

I don't like typewriters, but who knew they were so interesting? Some of them are really exotic.

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Re:Museu de la Tècnica by IgorPartola on Sunday October 30, 2016 @12:12AM (#12828120)

You are my hero.

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