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Early typewriter ribbons were literally soaked in wet ink

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Because office work wasn't miserable enough without constantly staining your fingers jet black. The earliest typing machines required users to manually thread a fabric strip completely saturated with wet ink through the mechanism. It was a messy, frustrating chore that made typing a document feel like operating a dirty printing press.

Early typewriter ribbons were literally soaked in wet ink
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