Using paper maps is a good idea for everyone. For example finding your way to a doctor’s office without your location being tracked.
Yellow pages could also make a comeback, for example looking up a doctor’s office without your search history being tracked
Typewriters could make a comeback too, for example when corresponding with a doctor or lawyer without your work being scanned in real time by microsoft or google.
Sigh.
Writing in cursive is a good as code these days, so long as you and the person you are corresponding to can both read it.
Maybe there is stationary out there that would affect your text being easily scanned.
Zines. Zines should make a comeback. We should all make zines.
You are missing out.
Good tip. I also have my own invented alphabet.
They’re so nice to write with – and to doodle. I saved stacks and stacks of weekly meeting notes filled with them. I threw them all out when I retired, and now I kind of miss the doodles.
But fountain pens are kind of pain to refill, clean, etc.
When I went to school, after learning to write with a pencil, we graduated to writing with dip pens with porcelain inkwells which slotted into the desks. We took it in turns to be ink monitor, pouring ink from large bottles into tiny holes in the inkwells.
Fountain pens would have been luxury (pronounced in a Yorkshire accent).
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There are some really nice pens that use a cartrige system for ink.
I’m more troubled by all the crappy paper that’s out there. Too absorbant, not absorbant enough, shedding fibres or whatever that get caught in the nib, and so on…
I had something like this for a mechanical drawing class. Still have it but haven’t used it for decades. Sigh.
I love tech pens so much!
I still have a set like this, but I haven’t used it for years.
Osmiroid is defunct, but a search tells me they use the “Standard international” cartridge, still available… They also came with a squeeze fill adapter (the long brown tube).
I took a lot of my notes in university with a cheap Sheaffer fountain pen, just because my hand didn’t cramp up as much.as with a ballpoint.
I used Parker Jotter fountain pens in school. I had a couple of different nibs (medium and fine), and even had the squeeze-fill adapter.
It occurred to me that those nibs looked like fingernails, so I did a search. Sure enough . . .
You can find anything you want
At Alice’s Restaurant Google’s search engine.
