pencil and paper n.
An archaic information storage and transmission device that
works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp.
More recent developments in paper-based technology include
improved `write-once' update devices which use tiny rolling heads
similar to mouse balls to deposit colored pigment. All these
devices require an operator skilled at so-called `handwriting'
technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom,
but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible
handwriting to begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have
encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason,
hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist
using it in any but the most trivial contexts.