June 23 is National Typewriter Day, when American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes received approval for the typewriter patent in 1868.

Actor Tom Hanks loves vintage typewriters and even helped develop Hanx Writer, an iPad app that simulates writing on a typewriter (still works but hasn’t been updated in years). If you aren’t an Apple person, just go to Typewrite Something for the clickety-clack of a vintage machine.