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I am a fountain pen enthusiast, or I should rather say "used to be". If any effect Internet has had on my fountain-penmanship or any penmanship it has resulted
by balladeer 9y ago
I am a fountain pen enthusiast, or I should rather say "used to be". If any effect Internet has had on my fountain-penmanship or any penmanship it has resulted in drastically decreased usage. Isn't it a general phenomenon? (I've no data on it, just what I have observed around me)
So if you meant just buying, selling, collecting, swapping pens, and talking about fountain pens then it makes sense (which is what it seems you have focussed on in your comment), but if that also involved actually using them then, I would say, overall the Internet has instead done great harm to it.
- freosam 9y agoI'm the same. I used to almost exclusively write with a fountain pen. Now I write everything with a keyboard. Primarily, because I realised that notebooks full of words are hard to search and fragile in a archival preservation sense. Far better to type everything, and print it all on archival paper with pigment inks (no laser printers!). Sort of a bit sad though, to not play with pens and bottles and syringes etc. any more.