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I feel like there is still a need for this thing, but for reasons I can’t understand, nothing replaced it when it went away. I mean, Junior High Schools still
by jasonkester 2y ago
I feel like there is still a need for this thing, but for reasons I can’t understand, nothing replaced it when it went away.
I mean, Junior High Schools still need big long banners to hang over classroom doors to announce things. Sure, there are no more dot matrix printers to print them on a long perforated sheet. But surely kids would be willing to tape sheets of paper together.
What am I missing?
- dragonwriter 2y agoIt didn't go away. Several different, confusingly named and numbered, versions are available currently: https://www.broderbund.com/ https://www.broderbund.com/
- neilv 2y agoI can only guess. Maybe, when the only printer the classroom had was an Epson FX-85, banners were low-friction. Everything you printed was a banner, until you burst the pages. Coloring it in was optional. Making a banner with a contemporary printer, however, requires arts&crafts effort before you have anything? Or maybe it's more about kids spending much more time with digital than with atoms? Attention spans, priorities, early personal-brand-marketing nudges by helicopter parents or influencer role models and peers, less mystique/novelty about doing things with computers?
- altcognito 2y agoCanva is as close as it gets, and yeah, no banners
- saulpw 2y agoTaping sheets together is not as easy or as fun as you think. The fun part of making a banner was letting print for however long and then carefully tearing it off and then you could just hang it. Also, people make whatever they want in MS Word using Comic Sans. Why pay for a a specialized tool when you can use the same thing you write your thesis in?