# Google's doodle for today (23 April): isn't the typewriter carriage going in the wrong direction? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2015, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-for-today-23-april-isnt-the-typewriter-carriage-going-in-the-wrong-direction/718342 "2015-04-23T07:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-for-today-23-april-isnt-the-typewriter-carriage-going-in-the-wrong-direction/718342/21 "2015-04-24T01:13:37Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Blame [Jerry Lewis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEp94r8qqSM). Towards the end, he appears to be typing on some sort of backwards mini-typewriter in midair. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-for-today-23-april-isnt-the-typewriter-carriage-going-in-the-wrong-direction/718342/22 "2015-04-24T01:48:01Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > [Carriage return video.](https://youtu.be/ANaL80AsKVM) [Here’s an even better one, in Spanish.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naxsn5ymZI4) ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-for-today-23-april-isnt-the-typewriter-carriage-going-in-the-wrong-direction/718342/23 "2015-04-24T01:56:10Z")
It’s obvious, really - you’re seeing a reflection of the typist in a window. Yeah, that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-for-today-23-april-isnt-the-typewriter-carriage-going-in-the-wrong-direction/718342/24 "2015-04-24T02:24:14Z")
Apparently a lot of young people are getting into typewriters. I always hated them. I could type but I didn't like it. I was so happy when the damn things were replaced by computers, but I can understand how someone who's never seen one could be fascinated by it. It's a machine that you can work and watch and pretty much understand every aspect of how it functions. There's a physical feeling of impressing the letter onto the paper. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-for-today-23-april-isnt-the-typewriter-carriage-going-in-the-wrong-direction/718342/25 "2015-04-24T06:56:31Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Apparently a lot of young people are getting into typewriters. > > I always hated them. I could type but I didn't like it. I was so happy when the damn things were replaced by computers, but I can understand how someone who's never seen one could be fascinated by it. It's a machine that you can work and watch and pretty much understand every aspect of how it functions. There's a physical feeling of impressing the letter onto the paper. I have a small collection of manual typewriters, with a couple of them in working condition that I use. I simply _love_ the things. It might be because I first learned to write (by myself) with my father’s Remington portable… But in any case, I enjoy typing in a manual typewriter. Computers and electric typewriters do not provide the same deep, intimate satisfaction. I won’t comment about typing on an iPhone 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-for-today-23-april-isnt-the-typewriter-carriage-going-in-the-wrong-direction/718342/26 "2015-04-24T09:26:43Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > It’s obvious, really - you’re seeing a reflection of the typist in a window. Yeah, that’s it. I’ve not read any of her books. Perhaps the mirror references one of her stories? ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-for-today-23-april-isnt-the-typewriter-carriage-going-in-the-wrong-direction/718342/27 "2015-04-29T08:24:05Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Today’s Google doodle is celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth of Dame Ngaio Marsh, the New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. The doodle actually says 122nd anniversary, which is wrong, since Marsh was born in 1895. Someone at Google made a typo. Comment from Wikipedia: “Her father neglected to register her birth until 1900 and there is some uncertainty about the date.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-doodle-for-today-23-april-isnt-the-typewriter-carriage-going-in-the-wrong-direction/718342.md?page=1)