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This is why paperweights exist. Office buildings all used to have ventilator shafts which effectively created lower pressure in the interior of the building. In
by connoredel 8y ago
This is why paperweights exist. Office buildings all used to have ventilator shafts which effectively created lower pressure in the interior of the building. In order to make it work, you needed to have your office window open AND an interior window open (typically above your office door, so you could still keep your door closed).
As you can imagine, there was a lot of wind whipping through offices. This is why the paperweight was invented -- and also why no one uses paperweights anymore.
- vortico 8y agoNo longer using paper is also a factor.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoThere is more paper printed now than ever before. I think you are probably right about not using it though.
- ptaipale 8y agoPaper use is in decline in North America and West Europe. In China, it is on the rise.
- std_throwaway 8y agoChina invented paper but Germany invented the printing press. Now China exports more printers but Germany exports more paper.
- Pulcinella 8y agoThe printing press existed before Gutenberg, even in China. Gutenberg’s invention was movable type.
- dorchadas 8y agoMovable type also existed before Gutenberg. China was using ceramic and wood based movable type in the 11th century, for instance.
- cbluth 8y agoWhat is this medium you call "paper"?
- CyberDildonics 8y agoIt's how old people get their daily fake news