# Without saying your age, what's something from your childhood that a younger person wouldn't understand? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 25, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138 "2021-10-25T01:08:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 123
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/123 "2021-10-25T18:10:39Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > The smell of mimeograph paper. > > There was a movie ( _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ maybe?) where a teacher handed out mimeographs to the class, and everyone held it up to their face to smell it. Probably a majority of people wouldn’t understand that gag today. [pedant][Spirit duplicator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator) – aka Ditto.[/p] > The faintly sweet aroma of pages fresh off the duplicator was a feature of school life in the spirit-duplicator era.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator#cite_note-4) [Mimeographs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph), instead of using solvent to transfer the colored wax onto the copy uses a stencil through which honest-to-goodness (if a little weird) ink is forced onto the copy. A 30-copy classroom assignment is going to be Ditto. The several hundred-copy school newspaper is Mimeographed. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138)._