The Most Unlikely School Bag

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1-more•about 3 hours ago

One term in high school I put a laptop bag strap on a hanging file box and used that as a bag for a semester. It made me nuts that teachers hand you stuff you need to hold on to that has no holes in it, but you're supposed to store it in a 3 ring binder. Everything you are supposed to bring with you to class is the shape of a rectangle, but a backpack is a blob that lets your stuff fall to the bottom. Best grades I ever got. Ended up hurting my back so I went back to a backpack. I got a lot of "why don't you just…" questions for a day or two and then it was chill.

This bag shape seems far superior for the purposes of carrying paper hither and thither than any other bag shape I've seen.

EvanAnderson•about 1 hour ago

Rectangular prism-based storage FTW.

I carried a briefcase for my last three years of high school (in the early 90s in rural Ohio). After the jokes subsided it became "just a thing" and, wow, was it nice. I ended up being able to get by w/o using a locker (beyond stowing my coat in the cooler months). Being able to lock it was a treat, too.

I assume it would never fly today because "security".

MisterTea•about 2 hours ago

> It made me nuts that teachers hand you stuff you need to hold on to that has no holes in it, but you're supposed to store it in a 3 ring binder.

That is why pocket folders exist.

jerlam•about 2 hours ago

I was super cool for a week when other students saw I had a three-hole punch that fit into a three ring binder.

gorpy7•about 3 hours ago

this was written with at least the help of ai- it’s still a good article and idk if i’m the only one who can tell or we’re beyond the point of needing or wanting or caring to point it out. idk

1970-01-01•about 1 hour ago

It's also an ad. Also dk if I’m the only one who can tell or we’re beyond the point of needing or wanting or caring to point it out.

j2kun•about 3 hours ago

It drags on a bit and is rather verbose, which is what made me notice it was AI-assisted.

croisillon•20 minutes ago

oh but we discussed this already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447800

croisillon•about 3 hours ago

full slop indeed but at least the japanese emperor cited really existed

aanet•about 3 hours ago

It looks gorgeous. I would love to have one, and I'm not even close to primary school age :D

I loved the making-of video: https://youtu.be/lSochjb6ovI

booleandilemma•about 3 hours ago

For me the iconic school bag will always be the JanSport.

munificent•34 minutes ago

I bought a black JanSport backpack from my university bookstore in, I think, 1998. It was the first version that had a laptop slot in it because laptop computers were still a rarity then. I got it because my job at an dotcom startup bought me a bright orange iBook. Still one of my favorite laptops.

That JanSport lasted me 20 years. It outlasted that dotcom started, the entire dotcom bubble, the Great Recession, and three jobs. It took on dozens of flights and road trips. On long hikes in the Smokey mountains, and sleepovers at several girlfriends' apartments. It was an absolute tank.

What finally gave out was the rubberized coating on the bottom started to get gummy. But, wow, did I get my money's worth with it.

sowbug•about 3 hours ago

Recent discussion on topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777209

MisterTea•about 2 hours ago

I was an Eastpak kid. To me, the quality was the same with the added bonus that you were less likely to get robbed for it.

worik•about 3 hours ago

I want one.

Gorgeous

jmclnx•about 4 hours ago

Interesting read. The title made me think of Catholic School Book Bags that everyone in my city who went to Catholic Schools used. Public school kids (me) just carried the books to school, rain, snow or shine. No school busses back then.

I could not find a picture, but there were like small army duffel bags, dark green with a yellow fabric strap. You held the strap and slung the bag over your shoulder.

reconvene1290•about 2 hours ago

ca;dr

Center aligned; didn’t read

ideaforge_00•3 days ago

Every generation accidently recreates the same object with newer materials and better marketing. This is basically the modern equivalent of a satchel, except now it comes with aerospace fabric, limited drops, and a Discord server.

AlotOfReading•about 4 hours ago

LLM comment? The link is about randoseru, which are not satchels and predate the existence of both discord and powered flight.

brudgers•2 days ago

  Every generation thinks it invented sex.
    --Robert Heinlein