Cc: and Bcc: in email -- do you think youngsters wonder:

[bertha katzenengel]

"Why is it called 'carbon copy?' What's a 'carbon copy?'"

:shrug:

[trof]

1. I used to think carbon paper was the neatest toy ever.

[liontamer]

2. portable credit card machines still use carbon paper.

But you're right, i didn't know that CC stood for carbon copy for years! :blush:

[Sequoia]

3. I'm sure glad those days are over.

Everytime you made a mistake you had to get out the typewriter eraser and erase all copies, could be 4 carbons too. Plus you had to be careful that you didn't rub a hole in the paper. No typewriter earaser you say...well, just get out the No. 2 pencil and wet the eraser which worked just fine. The Xerox machine was a wonderful invention, then the Selectric with it's built in eraser feature but you had to get the eraser on the spool in order to make it work.

[trof]

6. And the carbon copies were on onion skin and

the fourth carbon was an unreadable blur.

[Sequoia]

8. If technology had not advanced I'd been out of a job

due to many screw ups, holy paper, and destoryed carbons. Those manual typewriters were horrid and the keys always got stuck. Not long ago, a boy was using my old Princess Dial Phone I'd drug out of storage and he stared at it and asked me how to use it!!

[skygazer]

4. Remember mimeograph machines?

I used to love being chosen by the teacher to go to the A/V room and make mimeograph copies of the day's tests. You had to put the piece of carbon paper that had the test on it on the machine and then turn the crank to make copies. Later, we got one that was electric - you just had to set the number of copies you wanted and it did it by itself (after you affixed said carbon to the roller).

Wow, the cutting edge of technology!

[catmandu57]

5. I loved the smell of a mimeograph

Fresh ones with the purple ink.

[trof]

7. The purple ink.

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. Okay, where's the latest Beloit College Freshmen Mindset list when you need it?