2nd September 2015, 5:03 AM
Are you that surprised? I don't know of anyone that's used those things outside of you. What on earth would I use them for? I mean, I know you're a history buff so you're probably regularly writing down the order of glyphs in a tomb somewhere so you know which order to direct a sunbeam onto them to unlock a door or something, but for most of us, it just doesn't come up. Especially now, since everyone has a handheld computer they can take notes on without having to look for a pen or something.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)