Ernie Smith is a former contributor to EdTech and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Today, many teachers and students probably think nothing of copying a document.

When I was at the library recently, I reviewed a 1946 publication by an urban planning agency. The purple color of the text of the document jogged my memory. The pages had been printed on a ditto ...

Before the laser printer, before the Xerox, and before the carbon copy, there was the mimeograph machine. In 1876, Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) filed a United States patent for autographic printing by ...

They're all in their places with bright shiny faces. School is back in session for another year, but for this generation of students, it's one more year removed from what once was an educational ...