I used to get more done, but most of it was filing. Now I don't have to file, and I design business processes to avoid paper, not because I give a toss about trees, but because I hate filing.

Interesting Q! I hadn't seen that one.

As a teen working in my mother's office, a big part of my job was putting paper memos into people's mailboxes. What do teens do today?

Another time, I had to manually feed paper into a very primative dot matrix printer, actually it was just a glorified typewriter that typed by itself. If I had the internet, I'd read metachat while waiting for the pages to print, but back then I just stared at the typewriter head and noted the different ways it struck the paper. Whether that made me who I am today I have no idea.

I remember going to visit my dad's office back in the 90s at some point. He had a computer on his desk. (And we had one at home, but it was a Mac and we wound up killing it where it just gave a sad face and would shut down, but that was a few years later.)

I remember noticing that he had a brown grocery bag over the monitor and that it was quite dusty.

It turned out that he hated the damn thing so much that he just put a paper bag over it so he wouldn't have to look at it anymore. He said that if they wanted him to make slide shows, they should've hired him to do that, and not to fix/build/design things.

Of course, he laughs now about that, but he loves his computer and making charts and spreadsheets and looking things up on the internets. (He still does his salary charts, only for me now, by hand though.)

Yeah, I really enjoyed reading that one.