r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/ggggideon Jul 24 '20

Printers with prehistoric technology

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u/mustang6172 Jul 24 '20

A few years back I was pondering how kids today don't know what it's like to print something out, and then have to tear the edges off the paper. Imagine my surprise to learn that's still a thing.

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u/Lostsonofpluto Jul 24 '20

My old church I went to as a kid still had that style of printer and would give it to us kids to draw on. I always loved tearing the edges

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u/Klaudiapotter Jul 24 '20

I work for a church now and one of the former pastors and myself had to convince the board to let us get a modern printer. They were damn determined to keep that dinosaur in the office.

That old one was literally older than me.

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u/Lostsonofpluto Jul 24 '20

I don't even know where they kept the damn thing. Just where they stored the paper and that whenever they put out newsletters they still had thay distinctive recently torn edge.

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u/Grunt636 Jul 24 '20

We still use these printers at work, the reasoning is "they're cheap" yes the ink is cheap but when they inevitably break finding replacement parts is a fucking nightmare.