Now listen up you young ones! I am just having a laugh and a trip down memory lane. My age will really show here. I was reading an advert that offers a pack of 12 felt pens for $1.99.
I can remember when felt pens were new, hard to get, and very expensive (and others, yet even older, here will remember using slates and chalk at school :bggrn: ). Only one girl had a pack of felt pens in my class and that was because her dad had gone to the USA on business and brought them back for her. She was the envy of every other kid in the class! That would have been when I was about 7. :dnc1: (I also remember when biros became available. Before that we had to use ink from ink wells. Boys were always doing naughty things with the ink, including dipping girls' long plaits in them. Computers weren't invented either!)
wikipedia has this to say about them...
Lee Newman patented a felt-tipped marking pen in 1910.[3] However, markers of this sort began to be popularized with the sale of Sidney Rosenthal's Magic Marker which consisted of a glass tube of ink with a felt wick. By 1958 use of felt-tipped markers was commonplace for a variety of applications such as lettering, labeling, and creating posters.[4] The year 1962 brought the development of the modern fiber-tipped pen (in contrast to the marker, which generally has a thicker point) by Yukio Horie of the Tokyo Stationery Company.
Ahhhh memories :sage: