My huge but now ancient stock of carbon paper has been going down fast since I introduced some toddlers to it: "See, you put it between two sheets of paper and what you draw on this sheet is also on that one".
I'm not sure their mums like it that much even though some was the "new kind" several decades ago which did not spread the mess quite so far.
I was able to explain to a couple of the parents that this was what the term “cc” as used in their email program came from. And that “bcc” means “blind carbon copy”, referred to carbon copies when their recipients were not listed on the top copy of a letter or document.
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