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 ...

It’s a crucial line in the 1990 movie Ghost, a favorite phrase of Rush Limbaugh’s dittoheads, and the reigning copy machine of the mid-20th century, but what does ditto really mean, and where did it ...

Recently, on one of those “today in history” moments that are the total of television’s nod to educational content, I discovered that it was the 125th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s invention of the ...

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 ...

Try explaining to some thirtysomething the exquisitely intoxicating smell of paper fresh from the ditto machine. I tried to tonight. Without success. From Wikipedia: The aroma of pages fresh off the ...