One fun hobby that has been lost with the downfall of typewriters is typewriter art, using the letters to create images. Typewriter portraits of the stars were particularly popular and I found some in a 1919 issue of Photoplay. Huzzah!
(The art isn’t entirely dead but it’s definitely no longer mainstream.)
Young Kenneth Taylor had a job at the Los Angeles Times but he also loved to make art on his typewriter and I think the kid had talent. Kenneth penciled in his artwork and then used the typewriter (his favorite letters were M, W and X) to fill in the shadows and such. Here’s his work:
Dorothy Gish looks merry in her tam!
A stoic portrait of William S. Hart. Fewer letters than Dorothy, more punctuation.
Would this be complete without Charlie Chaplin? I think not!
Movies Silently 
Analog ASCII Art!
What fun!
I collect autographed pictures of classic movie stars. I write letters to the stars and include a SASE. I have several from the silent movie era. My biggest one is Lillian Gish. She sent me a picture of her from the early 1920s that had her autograph on it and she also included a 3×5 card with her current signature. She was 98 at the time I received her autograph. The picture along with the card is framed and hanging on my living room wall. 😊