A timely thought

[sid]

As the days of analog timepieces fade into history, will the directions "Turn clockwise to tighten" soon lose all meaning?

Will the expression persist, complete with scholarly footnotes and diagrams?

What could possibly replace it?

Any youngsters out there who can give a current status report?

And, just for fun, what other words or phrases can you think of that belong to the past but live on in the present? (It's late, and all I can think of right now is "Hold your horses!")

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Re: Also here via 3W4DW

[shiyiya]

My elementary school had a bunch of carbon paper that I suspect had been discarded from someone's office at the after school club! This would be in the late nineties. It was FASCINATING :P

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[lurkingcat]

I know! You type or write or draw something and magically there is a copy of it! It was great stuff :)

When Mum moved on to using a word processor and a printer my brother kept all the carbon paper for making copies of all his technical drawings of his 'inventions' (which were usually things that involved Lego, elastic bands, random bits of cutlery and a Wile E Coyote approach to physics).