I’m so old, I actually used “carbon paper” to make paper copies! And I was using “cc” back then, too. Making “carbon copies” on a manual typewriter (which I learned on in high school) was tough because you had to strike the keys a bit harder than normal which slowed down your typing.
But my correspondence recipients were perplexed when they saw “bcc” at the bottom of my letters. “What’s this ‘bcc’?” they would ask.
It still being used in the 70's.
-PJ
Mimeograph was a godsend for grading papers...
I’m that old, too. I remember when you made a typo, you inserted this metal thing in between each carbon copy and manually erased the typo on each copy, then rolled the papers back in place typed over it. I was ecstatic when computers became common.
Did you also use a mimeograph? Pretty sure that smell gave the whole school a buzz.
But my correspondence recipients were perplexed when they saw “bcc” at the bottom of my letters. “What’s this ‘bcc’?” they would ask.
I was still using a manual typewriter in the 1980s and made many carbon copies and used "cc" but I don't recall being aware of "bcc" until computers came out.
STILL HAVE A MANUAL TYPEWRITER-—USED IT TO PREPARE W-2’S FOR OVER 42 years. ALSO to do homework for night classes in Accounting.
I'm that old too, and did the same thing. That's what we were taught in our typing classes. Back then CC stood for carbon copy.
It was probably “only” 20 years ago that I kept carbon paper with me on field jobs. One client would want a copy of my field sketch maps right away. Luckily I had some stashed - I don’t think I could find it in the stores anymore. I still might have some. Somewhere!