In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly every student in the room takes a big whiff of their sheet before setting ...

* Illustration: Victor Koen * Newfangled baubles come and go quickly; today's Blu-ray is tomorrow's VHS. Certain technologies long ago left behind by fashion, however, will always occupy a special ...

So who went to school during that era of the ditto machine and actually got the opportunity to smell a freshly printed ditto sheet. I actually got to go to the teacher's lounge and "run" (crank the ...