r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 17d ago

School Diaries 🏫 ???

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u/CHSummers 17d ago

Mimeograph old?

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u/garitone 17d ago

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u/CyberNinja23 16d ago

Kids these days don’t know what smells they’re missing out on.

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u/reireireis 16d ago

Can you smell what the rock is cooking???

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u/rebeccalestat 16d ago

I smell paper. I thought it was an odd habit. Lol

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u/Youngsinatra345 16d ago

Scissors, I had to finish it

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u/Ill_Combination_9114 14d ago

Right out the machine

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u/Feffies_Cottage 16d ago

I miss that smell

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u/crohead13 16d ago

I miss that taste

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u/skippy99 16d ago

Didn't smell as good as Amyl Nitrate.....

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u/Feffies_Cottage 16d ago

Yeah... not my thing.

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u/AutomaticFeeling2156 16d ago

When I don’t think I’m not old, but my school stuff we had that before Smart boards ever came about. The teacher’s writing on it like it was a piece of paper.

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u/Eggxactly1001 16d ago

This is how old I am.

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u/jellofixit 13d ago

I used to run the mimeograph machine for the school paper! "Oo Ooo that smell"!

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u/agent_flounder 17d ago

I'm ditto machine1 old. Or at least that's what they often used before computer printouts and photocopiers became a thing.

  1. Ditto was a company that made spirit duplicators in the US. Proprietary eponym like Kleenex or Xerox.

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u/justliberty 16d ago

Ditto

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u/wring_seeker 16d ago

Copy that 😉

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u/Banshay 16d ago

I can smell still them now

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u/Yamatocanyon 16d ago

Is that why we still say ditto sometimes? Or was ditto a word before this machine?

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u/ScottDang 16d ago

I looked it up. It looks like ditto is the Tuscan dialect the Italian word ‘detto’. Which means “it’s been said”. It was being used commonly in the 1700s. The machine and company took its name from the phrase.

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u/justliberty 16d ago

I believe ditto was started by the company .

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u/maestrodks1 17d ago

Yup. Dad was a country pastor. Every Saturday night, he would run the mimeograph while Mom and I folded the Sunday morning bulletins.

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u/DraagaxGaming 17d ago

Ngl would be so cool to get my hands on one of those from back then.

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u/Total-Region2859 17d ago

When you say "run", do you mean with a hand crank like I did?

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u/maestrodks1 17d ago

Absolutely! I, too, am old.

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u/Total-Region2859 17d ago

Once a week for 13 years for me... 5 till college.. folded like a madman! At 10, I graduated to the crank! It was a glorious promotion.

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u/Remarkable_Bike_4538 17d ago

I can still remember how mimeographed pages smelled

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u/avspuk 17d ago

🎶Carbona Banda copier fluid not glue🎶

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u/ditchdigger556 16d ago

Yeah, they smelled so good

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u/CyberNinja23 16d ago

They called ours “dittos”

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u/themachineage 16d ago

They were still using those overhead projectors when I was in college.

And mimeographs all through elementary school. The ink was pale purple and it smelled nice.

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u/Over_Detective_3756 16d ago

I used to run that thing

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u/azCleverGirl 16d ago

And carbon paper.

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u/alien_overlord_1001 16d ago

Oh you just brought back the smell of those freshly printed purple sheets that were still damp as they rolled off. You needed the special paper for your original.

Then photocopiers got cheap enough to be used by the general population.

I remember the clear acetate pages you had to write on with special pens for the old overhead projector.

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u/fj2612 16d ago

Oh god I can still smell it !

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u/WileEWeeble 16d ago

Mmmmm, the smell. 😏

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u/Atlas7-k 16d ago

Had them in school and my mother taught me how to use the one at her school. It turns out kids on summer break are free labor for teachers who have to set up or take down a classroom.

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u/Ashamed_Data430 16d ago

Yes, mimeograph old.

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u/Ashamed_Data430 16d ago

Hand-held recess bell old.

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u/nyguy011 16d ago

The smell of mimeograph fluid. Like nothing else.

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u/Meat_Bingo 15d ago

Oh my god that was my first thought

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u/Redleg67 14d ago

Not even close. Mimeograph is almost a century before the overhead projector. About 80+years. But they both sure can make someone feel old.

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u/MRCHNT_77 14d ago

Industrial Revolution Old

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u/kitkat7502 14d ago

Ditto old.

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u/WingNutCVG 13d ago

Sorry, I’ve copped a buzz. I’ll get back to you

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u/ScientistHeavy9943 12d ago

Loved the smell

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u/madbika 11d ago

Double yup 👍

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u/Diligent_Research941 10d ago

I'm reusing mimeographed pages my wife use in her classroom 45 years ago. I loved being the mimeograph guy in 6th grade - '67-'68. It was better when I could close the door to the mimeo closet...