>> shorthand used to be very common and it's funny to see it now observed as a curiosity on HN Seeing this Wikipedia link made me feel old. Shorthand was inde

>> shorthand used to be very common and it's funny to see it now observed as a curiosity on HN Seeing this Wikipedia link made me feel old. Shorthand was indeed very common, my older sister took Pitman shorthand courses in high school, but by the time I hit high school in the mid 80s, it was no longer offered at my school. By the time the 90s rolled around, it was probably a dying craft. Heck, in the early 90s, I had a summer job using a dedicated Wang word processing machine, typing out paper memos using a dictaphone (remember those?). As I get older, I find it interesting when younger generations find novelty in things from my younger days, like hollerith cards, walkmen, vinyl, and film cameras.