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pencil and paper
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n. An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by
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depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent
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developments in paper-based technology include improved write-once update
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devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit
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colored pigment. All these devices require an operator skilled at so-called
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handwriting technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom,
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but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible handwriting to
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begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade
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further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper
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technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts.
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