Carbon Copy

Papito is my assistant.  So I asked him:

Please send this email to -Tal y Tal and CC -Fulano de Tal.

'What's "CC" mean?'

Carbon Copy

'Carbon???'

I laugh and explain.  --->

Well,  back in the day, there wasn't a copy machine everywhere.  So to make a copy of a document,  the paper was specially made with ink already on it.  So when you pressed hard on the paper, the ink would be transferred to the other paper.  Genius, no?

'No.  Genius was the one that put the ink INSIDE the pen!'

photo: wikipedia

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