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People were writing 10+ page reports before computers. Writing shit by hand.
People were doing that after computers as well. See exams.
Hey, we got a typewriter at some point, it didn't help much with having to start the whole page over every time you made a mistake, but it did get the teachers off my back about my terrible handwriting so that was nice.
why didn't you just use the backspace key? /s
We've had White-out for almost a century now. They most certainly could've corrected those mistakes instead of starting over.
Whiteout was way out of the price range of my impoverished student ass.
Huh. It was a mandatory part of our back-to-school kit for most years here.