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There were whiteboards in 1990?

posted 8 years ago by monkeyalien
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I'm almost 30 and didn't see a big whiteboard until high school when chalkboards started being replaced. If that could have been done at least 10 years earlier then someone owes me and many other people reparations for all the nail-on-a-chalkboard feelings when chalk-to-chalkboard contact went awry. Then there's all the chalk dust. Was the delay due to cost or the fear that we'd be excessively sniffing the markers?

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[–] StoopKid (17) 7 years ago

Of course we did. Are you retarded?

[–] McQualude (4231) 7 years ago

We had chalk boards but a lot of the teachers used an overhead projector and acetate + dry erase markers, that was in the eighties. A lot of college professors also used projectors in the nineties. Dry erase boards were around but a lot of people didn't like them.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6398) 7 years ago

Remember whiteboards at work in 1996. In fact someone accidentally used a permanent marker on one of them and we were trying to figure out how to clean it. In the end tape head cleaner did the trick.

[–] Esterhowse (468) 4 years ago

The first time I saw a whiteboards was in the 70s. They were commonplace in the late 80s.