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People were writing 10+ page reports before computers. Writing shit by hand.
A few years ago, I found some college notes from 1906 next to a dumpster. They were hand written in beautiful cursive and bound as books, hundreds of pages for each subject. i couldn’t find a single mistake or smudge or anything. This was from a time where the main source of information were lectures where you were expected to write everything down, then use that as your textbook. It was hard to comprehend that at the time students had to make such an effort just to obtain the materials needed to complete a course. Too bad they were so mouldy would’ve loved to keep them.
Hey, we got a typewriter at some point, it didn't help much with having to start the whole page over every time you made a mistake, but it did get the teachers off my back about my terrible handwriting so that was nice.
why didn't you just use the backspace key? /s
We've had White-out for almost a century now. They most certainly could've corrected those mistakes instead of starting over.
Whiteout was way out of the price range of my impoverished student ass.
Huh. It was a mandatory part of our back-to-school kit for most years here.
People were doing that after computers as well. See exams.
I never liked that. It felt like only 20% of my mental bandwidth went into words, sentences and ideas. The rest went into printing characters on the paper by using the slowest method possible. No wonder why the text sucked every time. Using a computer improved text quality and output rate significantly.