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In the olden days there was no true backspacing. Typewriting writers simply kept going. You could go back a character or two and overtype your mistake with Xs or something, but that's about it. Later, someone figured out how to squeeze a ribbon of 'white out' under the hood, but fixing more than a word or two wasn't pretty.

Saturday's blog post was inspired by hearing the following song, Regina Spektor's 'Eet,' which is about a mythical key on a typewriter that allows you to overtype words on...