In 1944, the Bíró brothers and their business partner Juan Jorge Meyne began marketing their ballpoint pen in Argentina, under the name 'Birome'. With Europe engulfed in World War II, Argentina provided a stable manufacturing base. This marked the first successful commercial production of the ballpoint pen, which quickly became a popular writing tool due to its convenience, reliability, and low cost.

The commercial success of the Birome made the ballpoint pen widely available to the public for the first time. For poets and writers, this meant an affordable, dependable, and portable writing tool that could be used anywhere, at any time. This democratization of writing technology encouraged more people to write, contributing to the rise of mass literacy and a broader culture of literary expression in the post-war era.