Until the 1990s home computers weren’t really widely available, so people actually wrote things out by hand in large quantities. Sure in the late 1800s and beyond you could use a typewriter to be extra official, but if you ever have the chance to actually use one you’ll see why people often opted not to.
Handwriting is much faster and stresses the hand a lot less than the jerky stop-start of hand-printing.
These days it’s becoming redundant with word processing software so readily available, I’ll admit I haven’t actually handwritten anything except my name in over a decade. I’m not sure I even could anymore.
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