Well, sometimes ballpoints will leak when they are not being used, but generally not while you are writing with them.
Clearly you haven’t met my brother. 
His being left-handed didn’t help matters. :smack:
I’ve never seen a 16 2/3 record, but we had a turntable that would play that speed. If I recall, they were designed for spoken narratives of books for the visually impaired. Since hi-fidelity wasn’t a concern, the slower speed of the turntable allowed for twice as much content as on a 33 1/3 LP. You could fit about 40 minutes of audio on a side, or about 80 minutes per disc. They were rarely available for consumer purchase. I believe they were distributed by organizations that specialized in aiding the blind, and probably were available in public libraries.
Oh, true…lefties have a huge disadvantage when it comes to keeping their hands clean!!!
I also remember hearing about, but never saw these:
Yes, back in the far-off, pre-CD days of the 1950’s, you could order your new Chrysler with a built-in record player. Just the thing for road trips when you were out of radio-station range.
I’m 41 and I’ve got a small stack of 'em I took home when they pulled the last punch and the last reader out of my data center. I’ve been in data center operations since 1986, except for a brief stint on a helpdesk.
Today I was going through some old crap here at work and found some “WORM Optical Disks”. Haven’t seen one of those in a while…along with a bunch of tapes in formats I’ve either not seen for a while, or never seen before, and some reels.
A couple of people mentioned letraset. When I was little, my parents had a bunch of left over letraset stuff from an election campaign (Dad lost. Not a bad thing.) and I used to love to play with it and waste lots of paper in the process. They had one set that was this ridiculous curly fat 70s font and I just loved it!
A friend of mine has a collection of the cheesecake blotters! (He also collects fountain pens, and has a rocking blotter on his desk.)
One of my mother’s descriptions of someone who talked too much was that s/he “had been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.” (I’m 48.) That and saying someone sounds like a broken record are out the window.
I still call the return key on the keyboard the carriage return. :o
How about “press type”? In the era before personal computers, when you wanted to produce a nice-looking poster or invitation, you could buy sheets of “press type” in various typefaces. You positioned the sheet on your paper and used a popsicle stick or the like to rub the sheet and transfer the type to the paper. Letter by letter. Excruciating.
(Bolding mine) Apparently you do, because these days it’s called the “enter” key! 
I have BOTH keys on my keyboard! Nyah, Nyah!
Ever notice the round holes in a wooden desk. Those were for ink wells. Ink wells ,ink pens, and blotters all went together.
If the girl sitting in front of you had long hair, you could dip it in the ink well without her knowing. Kid fun.
I remember some of the older desks in my classroom having inkwells, too. Bet those desks are long gone!
Must be an antique…from the 90s! 
No - AFAIK, all Apple keyboards have both a Return and an Enter key - they sometimes do slightly different things, but are usually interchangeable.
And does anyone remember those IBM card Christmas wreaths that kids used to make in school? It’s been forever since I’ve seen one of those!
They used to be ‘newer’ than the Reader’s Digest Christmas trees, and you could still make one of those. Haven’t seen one of those either, though. Wonder why. Maybe the local coolness level is too high.
There was once a marvelous television program called Connections. (The original program, not the Part II or Part III.) If you go back far enough, computer punch cards can be traced back to cards that are used for different patterns in weaving on a loom.
I have an ink blotter! It’s wooden. I didn’t even think about the possibility that they are rare these days. I also have a quill, an ink well, a desk blotter, nibs, wooden pens. I have exquisite writing paper inscribed with my name by a master of Spencerian script.
But I send email.
Does anyone remember penny postcards? Shelley Berman suggested the nostalgia of the words “skate key.” Do they still make art gum erasers? (They have the smell of the first day back at school!)
Anyone know what a pin curl is? What about a bobby pin? Bobby socks? Being lavaliered? Being pinned? Do you know what a hair rat is? Teasing your hair?
A hair saver? BMOC?
Sure. That’s for when you can’t use the boom mic.
Pardon me whilst I go look it up.
Don’t think they existed during my lifetime…
But I DID have skates with a key back in the early 70s.
I remember Pink Pearl erasers.
Yes, but never styled my hair that way.
Still use them!
My daughter wears them…she’s 3 years old! 
In the late 80s when I went to college, this was still done…especially the lavaliering…I still have my college boyfriend’s somewhere! Pinning wasn’t as big a deal…people went right from the lavalier to an engagment ring (or breaking up) after graduation.
Yes, people were still doing that in the 80s, too…big hair days!
This one has me stumped…I have heard about them in books, but not sure how it’s used or the purpose.
Mostly the well-known athletes where I went to school.
That was fun.
Well it was before my time but I know who Charlie Chaplin was,what a washboard ,Penny Farthing,model Tee and the "Charlston "was.
The fact is our kids are lazy nowdays and unless knowledge is dispensed to them on a plate they cant be bothered to learn .
And anxious parents try to excuse them by citing the fast pace of modern innovation.
This side of the pond we’ve spoilt ,apologised for and excused our kids underperformance for too many years and now the massive wave of immigration that we’re experiencing in the U.K. is marganalising those very kids when they leave school.
Many of the immigrants dont know or care about so called Dyslexia (still no actual hard scientific evidence ,its all anecdotal)or A.D.D ,they dont think its good enough to just have a go and then give up when it becomes hard work.
All they know is that they want money,a place to live and the best life style that they can manage and that the only way to get this is by working hard even if it means getting up early in the morning ,that they cant go out every night and they cant rely on mummy and daddy to cook their meals ,do their washing ,drive them to work and back and “lend” them money .
Our young people (How I loathe that term )are going the way of the dinosaurs ,they cant compete with the new workers and frankly its nobodies fault but their own.
And to be honest I can only applaud the immigrants pragmatic ethos.
And now that Ive got that out of my system Im going to jolly well jump into a sub zero mountain stream and beat myself with birch twigs.
Interlinear translation of a work in a foreign language? I have not been in a language class since 1973, so I have no idea if today’s kids use them.
Blueprints.
They are rapidly becoming extinct. The place that does my blueprinting now uses scanners to print on bond paper, particularly since according to them 90 percent of the architectural and engineering work they get is now done on CAD systems. The very specialized light-sensitive coated paper used for blueprints is not being made any more.
I started studying architecture in the seventies, and then each drawing had to be fed slowly into the blueprint machine, not once but twice, to produce one blueprint. This generally meant it took about a minute to print each sheet. And the stink of ammonia was nasty. And finished prints had to be kept out of the direct sunlight as that would make them fade.
Blueprints were not exactly blue, but consisted of blue lines and data on white paper. Earlier blueprints were really blue, with all the information in white. Not easy to read.
I’m 64 and retiring in a year or two, so screw technology: I’m outta here!