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I work at a church, and we are doing electronic indexing our old register books - baptisms, confirmations, etc. These registers go back to the late 1930s, so are about 25 years older than me.
Some of the handwriting is absolutely beautiful, but nearly illegible. The style of cursive writing has changed over trhe decades; letters aren't made the same as I learned, and it takes some interpretation to figure out just what the names are. Some of the writers are so flowery that their script flows into the rows above and below, making a tangle of blue lines.
The people helping with this project all wonder if the point will come that these and other handwritten records will become unusable.
Some of the handwriting is absolutely beautiful, but nearly illegible. The style of cursive writing has changed over trhe decades; letters aren't made the same as I learned, and it takes some interpretation to figure out just what the names are. Some of the writers are so flowery that their script flows into the rows above and below, making a tangle of blue lines.
The people helping with this project all wonder if the point will come that these and other handwritten records will become unusable.
Let's hope not otherwise we'd be unable to read important documents like this.....
(I'm sure if they can decipher the Dead Sea scrolls and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, cursive will be easy)
I am too clumsy for smartphones. My family always makes fun of me because anytime I try to use one of their phones I screw it up and they have to make it work again.
But the main reason that I still use a flip phone (and will for as long as it remains possible) is that I grew up watching the original Star Trek. I thought that the communicator and tricorder were the coolest gadgets ever and dreamed of the day that such things might be real, so the flip phone is like a touchstone to my youth. Plus, it works perfectly for its intended purpose.
I also still wear a wristwatch and I still wetshave using a DE razor.
I still play passive basses through a tube amp and have pretty decent penmanship.
Just because something is new/modern doesn't mean it's better.
But the main reason that I still use a flip phone (and will for as long as it remains possible) is that I grew up watching the original Star Trek. I thought that the communicator and tricorder were the coolest gadgets ever and dreamed of the day that such things might be real, so the flip phone is like a touchstone to my youth. Plus, it works perfectly for its intended purpose.
I also still wear a wristwatch and I still wetshave using a DE razor.
I still play passive basses through a tube amp and have pretty decent penmanship.
Just because something is new/modern doesn't mean it's better.
