[Omah]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Confused now.

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Well, if you thought cassettes were the good old days, the "biro" was invented before my granny was born .....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1...B%C3%ADr%C3%B3

Bíró László József (29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985) was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen. He presented the first production of the ballpoint pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931. Bíró patented the invention in Paris in 1938.

[Shaun]

they're the worst format by far, I can't see why anyone would waste their time on them now

[DigitalSid]

Originally Posted by Omah

Ah, it's another of those things from the "good old days", invented in 1931 and patented in 1938 .....

Biros 'one of those things from the good old days'? Do young people not use pens now?

[DigitalSid]

Originally Posted by Omah

Well, if you thought cassettes were the good old days, the "biro" was invented before my granny was born .....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1...B%C3%ADr%C3%B3

The television was invented even earlier, the telephone much earlier, but like the biro, they're still very much existing, in use and of the present. Cassettes have very much died out in the mainstream, music wise, and won't be making a widespread comeback, however many hipsters jump on them (not that I'm against them doing so, I'd like to be proven wrong).

[Omah]

Originally Posted by DigitalSid

Biros 'one of those things from the good old days'? Do young people not use pens now?

If I have to use a handwriting implement, then it's usually some sort of felt-tipped pen, but, even then, they were invented in 1901 and modernised in 1962 - mostly, I sign with a pen, but everything else gets put onto some sort of digital media .....

[DigitalSid]

Originally Posted by Omah

If I have to use a handwriting implement, then it's usually some sort of felt-tipped pen, but, even then, they were invented in 1901 and modernised in 1962 - mostly, I sign with a pen, but everything else gets put onto some sort of digital media .....

How sad, and impractical, felt tips are for drawing and colouring, not for any serious writing.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by DigitalSid

The television was invented even earlier, the telephone much earlier, but like the biro, they're still very much existing, in use and of the present.

Television and the telephone have moved on and are almost unrecognisable from their early counterparts, but the "biro" hasn't and isn't.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by DigitalSid

How sad, and impractical, felt tips are for drawing and colouring, not for any serious writing.

My phones and computers can "write" in any script I feel appropriate, even in a copy of my own handwriting .....

[arista]

1968