Replied to My New Baby – Olympia SM3 with Professional Elite Font by Tom Fasano (Tom Fasano)
Typewritten note using a professional elite font on an Olympia SM3 typewriter
Tom, a hello from my typewriter to yours!

A typewritten index card nestled in to the keyboard of a green Olympia SM3 which reads: "Tom! Surely a first in technology history: My green 1959 Olympia SM3 with the Professional Elite No. 41 typeface is saying hello to your Bron Olympia SM3 with a similar Professional Elite face from my website to yours by way of webmention.  What can't a typwriter accomplish these days?!?  Perhpas they'll meet in the near future in-person at a type-in?  Warmest regards, Chris"

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Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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  1. For those interested in watching, it’s not all being syndicated here to Reddit, but the typed conversation is slowly continuing from Tom Fasano and Ted Munk who have got portions of the set up working on their own websites. You can see it unfolding in my own comments section or the copies on their websites respectively at:
    – https://boffosocko.com/2026/09/25/okay-typosphere-who-else-is-using-their-typewriter-to-converse-with-others-via-web-and-webmention/#thoughts%20on
    – https://typecast.munk.org/2026/09/26/so-whats-all-this-indieweb-and-webmentions-stuff/
    – https://tomfasano.com/stories/a-note-to-ted-munk/





  2. Well…I’m working on it. I’ll have to do a test post to make sure everything is working correctly. My site is self-hosted WordPress with Elementor Pro, so there was some additional backend stuff to do, not to mention creating a brand new Reddit account so that everything is kosher. Ugh. What a morning. But, I guess I’ve officially joined the typosphere with my new site.





  3. A typed reply going back and forth between two typewriters has to be the most analog webmention ever sent. Fun to see the IndieWeb crowd keep finding new ways to talk to each other.

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