It is quite different. I do not know any snappy metaphors, but rest assured, this is different from a typewriter, let alone a computer.

...Civility is not something that costs you time or money. The effort you use to insult me could be easily turned to more productive ends. I am aware that I am behind the times and a bit out of date, that has never not been the case. That does not mean you are any less rude for jeering at it.