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One of the best explanations I've ever seen, of what happens to a good idea as it's brought to reality:

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That one's even older than the Internet! Back when we used to Zerox jokes and pass them around.

Nice coloring job, though.
 
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Older than the 'net! No kidding! I used that cartoon (or a similar b/w one) back in the 1970s when I was teaching.

Gets the point across!
 

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That one's even older than the Internet! Back when we used to Zerox jokes and pass them around.

Nice coloring job, though.
What's "Zerox"? :D
 

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"What's "Zerox"? :D"

It's the brand that shady looking guys offer to sell you in alleyways.
 

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... or "A.B. Dick", who used to make mimeograph machines. We used to enjoy saying "I think I'll dick this one."

Hated those things because the original had to be perfect (and no mistakes in making it).
 

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We were very high tech at my school, we had a couple of these! :encouragement: PJ

Mimeograph machines and didn't need electricity! :highly_amused:
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Mimeograph machines and didn't need electricity! :highly_amused:

Funny to hear you say that - when I was in 5th grade, the teacher had a "high-tech" mimeograph that had an electric motor...

(Freshly printed pages still had that wonderful smell of white glue...)
 

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ah the smell of mimeograph machines.

I had to run a hand powered Gestetner machine at my very first church.
 

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When I was in elementary school back in the Dark Ages we had a duplicator machine called a hectograph. It had a flat bed with a gelatin type substance in it. The master has a soluble ink and would be placed on the gelatin. Then when a roller was slid over it the ink transferred to the gelatin. To make a copy the paper was laid on the gelatin and the roller was rolled across it. A very slow process overall.
 
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Hectograph! Wow, haven't heard that word since I used them back in the 1950s and 1960s.

Really simple idea - my brother and I "published" a neighborhood newspaper on our hectograph.

You can make one with a baking pan and some plain gelatine, and a "transfer" pencil.

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