Paper? They still make that stuff?

Good one, Google

Posted by Kate Sheppard at 12:27 PM on 01 Apr 2007

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I'll admit it. Google's Gmail Paper April Fools Day gag got me late last night when I was all tired and groggy and indignant:

"Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Well, you asked for it, and it's here. We're bringing it back."

Paper made from post-consumer organic soybean sputum? Genius.

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Stephanie

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn at 3:29 PM on 01 Apr 2007

Great Stuff

Very clever. I love this one:

"Gmail Paper is a scrapbooker's dream. I paper archive all of my son's emails, cut them out in creative shapes, and paste them in my binders."

The Grist gag about Wal*Mart got me, I have to confess.

by chrislatray at 10:13 AM on 02 Apr 2007

Paper is a great invention.

But it deserves to be used well. Junk mail is a horrendous abuse, as well as the demand of all those incompetent bosses who need their under-paid secretaries to print out their e-mail messages which they themselves are not smart enough to figure out how to read.

Everything we can do to minimize the need for paper is plainly good.

That said, the codex, i.e. the object we usually refer to as a "book," a pile of rectangularly cut pieces of paper with information printed on each side, all of them bound together along one edge, is the most stable and accessible means for making textual information available that we have come up with. To be sure, there are spatial limitations, and the Internet is overcoming them, in some regards.

Nevertheless, there is nothing like holding a book in your hands and reading it.

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by caniscandida at 10:51 AM on 02 Apr 2007

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