The sentence should look like this. Then like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, "the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold". It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses.
I don't have to imagine using a typewriter. We learned how to type with typewriters in Highschool in the early nineties. The first few jobs I had that involved administrative tasks relied on typewriters both electronic and mechanical. The electronic typewriters usually had "correction tape" which erased your errors via the backspace key. By the way, I'm only 44 years old as of 2022.