i was reminiscing about the good old days, and how back then kids could just enjoy themselves with a dictionary and not worry about tv or video games. quaint, huh? like i bet allen ginsberg visited the office supply store more times before 1960 than most of us would in an entire lifetime. and he even bought typewriter ribbons...

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2008/beats/

definitely worth the time, and the trip. doesn't make me want to type on a manual typewriter, but it does sort of illustrate that the concepts were in motion way before cut and paste was anything other than a layout artists' term.