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A brown IBM Selectric typewriter, which used the first backspace key.
ANSI | History | Technological History

Invention of the Backspace Key

ByBrad Kelechava May 17, 2016May 30, 2025

This early advertisement for the IBM Correcting Selectric II typewriter appeared on televisions in 1973. It demonstrates a typewriter that made use of a rotating…

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