<human>:  What is the history of the typewriter?
<bot>: The typewriter is a machine used to produce written documents by typing characters onto paper. The first typewriter was developed in the late 1700s by Italian inventors Pellegrino Turri and CarloXaginghiat. In 1808, an American inventor, William Austin Burt, invented a machine called a typographer which was the predecessor to the typewriter. In 1867, Christopher Latham Sholes developed the first commercial typewriter. It had a QWERTY keyboard layout, which is still used to this day. The typewriter began to gain popularity in the late 1800s with the rise of bureaucracy and business offices. By the 1960s and 1970s, electric typewriters began to dominate the market, although manual typewriters continued to be popular in homes. In the late 1980s and 1990s, typewriters experienced a decline in use with the rise of computers and word processors. However, typewriters remain popular among vintage enthusiast and those looking for a unique way to write.