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Briefcases were pretty dead by the 1990s weren't they? I'm 43, I've never owned a brief case. My father had them in the 80s.. but he had a laptop by around 19

Briefcases were pretty dead by the 1990s weren't they? I'm 43, I've never owned a brief case. My father had them in the 80s.. but he had a laptop by around 1990 and the briefcase disappeared. My father was an engineer and later manager in tech companies though, so maybe the briefcase hung around longer outside of the tech industry. I don't think I've ever seen a briefcase in my career, which essentially started in 1996.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> Briefcases were pretty dead by the 1990s weren't they? I'm 47 and not only own a couple of soft-sided small briefcases, I still see small hardsided briefcases, and the larger wheeled briefcases regularly (well, less so since I've been working from home due to the pandemic, but...) > My father had them in the 80s.. but he had a laptop by around 1990 and the briefcase disappeared. Soft-sided briefcases that existed before laptops and laptop bags are essentially identical, but for the padding in the laptop compartment.