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bell-cottoday at 1:58 PM1 replyview on HN

The form factor and usage go back quite a ways:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet


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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 2:02 PM

Yeah.

I used those things (the paper ones) for most of my career. I had stacks of them.

“Tablet” is a valid appellation, but we always called them “pads.”