Word: inked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much to the chagrin of the world's leading paleontologists, there's a good reason why Leonardo DiCaprio and Goldie Hawn have face recognition and they don't. Dress a movie star up, spread a few rumors about them being cloned and all that's lost is some ink and a few pages of the National Enquirer. Do the same to a mammoth-cicle and 23,000 years of data may end up forever frozen in order to appease the desires of the masses...
...numbers and letters on the card have been raised since the early 70s. They allow smaller libraries and University Health Services to take impressions of cards rather than copy down information. The reason the ink doesn't stay on your name for long is, according to Wamback, that "to protect the image and other graphics on the card, a very thin film of overlay is put on the card when it is generated. The chemical composition of this overlay is very different from the base card, and to date, the manufacturer has not come up with a topping that will...
...friend laughs. "You have ink on your forehead...
...ink pens deserve a bad reputation. They tend to resemble Hello-Kitty Japan-i-junk and the ink they issue--pink, yellow, light purple--is legible only in partnership with dark paper. But now, thanks to the Stanford company--inventors of the incredible, indelible Sharpie--gel pens have found their redeemer. The uni-ball Gel Impact 1.0mm ($2.49) gushes ink like a rollerball without bleeding through the page. A blue or black fountain-like line without all the pretension or nib sucking, imagine that! The Gel Impact has sent shockwaves through the pen design community with its ultra-modern...
...your brain. The fact remains that we don't just remember ideas; we remember colors, tastes and sounds. Bet you still remember those magenta koolats you wore to the 6th grade dance. For shit's sake, get that neat smelling marker away from your nasal cavity and throw some ink on the page...