How were gel pens invented?!

It’s hard to imagine a world without our beloved colored gel pens. We’ll walk you through the history of gel pens and highlight some iconic favorites! Check out our Gel Pens Guide here: to.jetpens.com/3Oauc8h
▬▬ ✦ P R O D U C T S ✦ ▬▬
Sakura Gelly Roll Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3MEgB7I
Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3trWVgO
Sakura Aqualip Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3muFJ6u
Sakura Gelly Roll Stardust Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3O5Xchf
Uni-ball Signo UM-100 Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3zAZtNg
Pilot Hi-Tec-C & G-Tec-C Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3xpsbhM
Uni-ball Signo UM-151 Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/39cofc9
Uni-ball Signo Broad UM-153 Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3NBGp5H
Uni-ball Signo Sparkling Glitter Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3QnBTtE
Pentel Hybrid Milky Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3Hg5kJR
Zebra Sarasa Clip Marble Color Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/39bo94o
Pentel EnerGel Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3xgyS5r
Zebra Sarasa Clip Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/39hLW2B
Pilot FriXion Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3NKpwpS
Pilot Juice Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/396VTQg
Zebra Sarasa Dry Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3xfH9qt
Zebra Sarasa Mark On Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3QnBV4K
Uni-ball One Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/39boaoY
Zebra Sarasa R Gel Pens: to.jetpens.com/3xdUorA
▬▬ ✦ T I M E S T A M P S ✦ ▬▬
0:00 Intro
0:27 The Invention of Gel Pens
1:57 Gel Pens through the Decades
2:02 1980s
2:37 1990s
4:10 2000s
5:23 2010s
6:19 2020s
6:58 Outro
7:12 End Screen Links
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[@JetPens]

Can you believe there was a time before gel pens existed? Let us know what gel pen you can't live without in the comments!

[@funkytime69]

capped energel with the blue body i forgot what they're called but they're so smooth and i love em

[@Floofy_3421]

My uni 1s they write so smoothly!

[@mardiweber2951]

That’s like asking me which one of my kids or my kitties I can’t live without!

[@Symphing12]

I love the Pilot Juice!!

[@musicdreamer2903]

Pentel Energel Infree and Zebra Sarasa Vintage are my love

[@murdermygymsox]

I remember when the Pilot Frixion pens came out. I thought it was an absolute revelation, because before this erasable pens felt like a dried out, bad ballpoint and the "eraser" did nothing but leave a blue smudge on my paper. I'm so happy stationery has come such a long way and incorporates such cool new technologies!

[@sachikoaichan]

Those old-school erasable pens were just the absolute worse. I had a teacher that insisted we all use them, and I'm pretty sure those pens are the reason I write with such a heavy hand. FriXions where such a game changer for writing and sewing.

[@ghlmk5931]

Agreed! I love my Frixion pens and after I tried them, I threw away all those old so called “erasables”. The Frixion are my go to pens now.

[@Call-me-Al]

As far as I remember the papermate brand erasable ballpoint pen in the 80s or 90s was good, but could be erased a bit too easily.

[@murdermygymsox]

@@Call-me-Al I would have been using them in the early 2000s in school. Maybe it’s a country specific thing? Who knows lol

[@isabellebise8440]

I remember having the old frixon pens, the ones with caps instead of retractable. They were not my favorite pen.

[@LaLa_ArtGal]

Long before gel pens, there were multiple ballpoint colors available. I remember in the 1970s agonizing between green and purple when I had to choose ONE. I didn't want red or orange, particularly, but they were available.

[@karenhurney4900]

YEAH!!! someone my age. Did you get the Lindy pens? They use to come in awesome colors and wrote soooo smoothly. I have been a pen fanatic for decades!! (1976 high school graduate and life long pen & paper enthusiast)

[@LaLa_ArtGal]

@@karenhurney4900 Same age! Class of 75 (but was supposed to be 76). I'd forgotten about the Lindy pens! Those were great; they were little half-size pens in wonderful colors. Lime green! Orange! Pink! Sky blue!

[@karenhurney4900]

I miss those little pens. Had every color. Lived near a college campus in NH and their book store always carried those and other really neat stationery stuff. Hi 5 to the people who graduated in the 70s

[@LaLa_ArtGal]

@@karenhurney4900 Are you on Facebook? Do you want to be friends? I don't have enough stationery addicts in my life! 😁

[@geminigrrl66]

As a Gen-Xer I'm going to disagree with you about ballpoint pens being either black or blue back in the day. There were colored ballpoint inks. I remember taking notes with purple and pink colored Bic pens lol. But gel pens were indeed a revelation, and if we only had Frixions instead of Eraser Mate 😉.

[@anya425]

I'm also a gen x and I thought the same; lots of different ballpoint colours.

[@Dan_The_Paper]

Gen x category starts on 2010 so no, they meant before 2000.

[@be_a_bright_sparkle3687]

I’m nearly 60 and once did my homework with one of those 12 in 1 pens. I was 15. I used a different colour for each paragraph. Teacher put a big Red Cross through it all and I got detention. 🤣🤣

[@mxwitcher]

​@@Dan_The_Paper Gen X started in 1965 to 1980. I believe you are talking about Gen Alpha.

[@camillatrondsen3264]

My grandmother always used a purple or turquoise Lindy ballpoint pen to write to us in the 1950s and ‘60s. Lindy pens came in black, blue, turquoise, purple, red and green - at least. They were the standard for us in grade school, before Bic took over the market.

[@vangogo6819]

I remember the Lindy Ballpoint pens! I was in grade school in 1970 and was obsessed with those pens,lol. Big had come out with the four in one pen a few years before but I loved the Lindy pens, especially the mini ones.

[@annes7926]

BIC introduced their 4-color pen in 1970. Flair felt-tipped pens came out around 1969 in many different colors. In 1979 there was an erasable pen introduced (by Schaefer?). It used a component similar to rubber cement in its ink and smeared terribly, especially for lefties.

[@angieemm]

All due respect, ballpoints were quite colorful in the 80s and I had ballpoint sets full of bright colors, some even neon. Y'all should fact-check with Gen-X! LOL

[@Ay-B]

So true! I just dug out a pink PaperMate pen that I bought mid-80s from Pic-n-Save. It's the last of a set that had green, purple, orange, turquoise (?). The barrel and cap were the color of the ink. A bit translucent and so pretty! Not sure if PaperMate ever made the pens again. I won't use the last one because I enjoy the memory (and because it's not gel ink). P.S. It still writes after 35+/- years.

[@panthercat38]

I came here for that big barrel of pen colors!!!! 😂😂😂

[@ms-ht1cj]

You're right! I remember using BIC colour ballpoints in the 80/90s.

[@80sforever3]

I think those were not available in Asian market, I started seeing colourful ballpen in late 1990s

[@joyfulsongstress3238]

I used to do my schoolwork in secondary school in green ink! I still prefer it to blue and black! Now I have a whole selection of colours that I use at work for other-than-legal documents. I'm still looking for a good rainbow ink pen with ink that's dark enough to really show up boldly.

[@staceydailey6394]

Your hair looks awesome today!!! I was born in 76, I have been a pen addict since I could walk. Living in the USA I wasn't first with any of these but I remember when I discovered gellyrolls, and I still have some of my original milky black paper. It has a cow jumping over the moon. I love all these inks as long as the come in pink and glitter is the cherry on top!

[@ManishMeena-pd6hr]

I just love how the writing instruments have such rich history and how we tend to ignore these beautiful discoveries.

[@pugflyer]

I use Xanthan gum in my cooking, cool. And we did have colour in the 1980's too.

[@heyokasd]

This was super interesting, thank you! I'm old enough to remember the days before gel pens, although thinking of it as "more than 40 years ago" is...distressing, lol.

[@silvimoonstudio3446]

My first gel pen was a black gellyroll. I was in college in the 90s and my college bookstore had a small stand with black, blue, and red. I fell in love immediately. Sakura Gelly Roll pens are still my faves.

[@rzentz]

I don’t know where you grew up but I was born in the 60s and we had huge multicolor ballpoint pens with red, green, purple and more inks. Were they as great as gel colors? No, but we had them when I was in elementary school

[@vangogo6819]

Same here, big had a four color pen that came out where I grew up in around 1968

[@annelyle5474]

I remember those massive ballpoints, with up to 10 colours - they were great fun!

[@vangogo6819]

@@annelyle5474 They were awesome, I have always been a "pen and pencil nerd" since I could hold a crayon!

[@punkgrl325]

@@annelyle5474 You can still buy them! Including the original bic 4-in-1. I’m a millennial, but I always loved those multipens, lol

[@DianaTrout]

I remember when gel pens started coming out! It seems like a lifetime of doodling ago. Thanks GREAT VID!!!

[@auntie_mobs]

I remember in 1994, Pilot Hybrid was already available here in the Philippines. In 1996, my friends and I (during our sophomore year in college) were already using Pilot's G1 - capped, no retractable gel pens yet. In 1997 or 1998, Dong-A My Metal were the hype because we got to use colored gel pens in taking notes.

[@ahoyhere8113]

this is a great idea and very interesting! please consider… the music in this is so loud, especially during the last 1/3 of the video, it’s really hard to hear what the presenter is saying. appreciate you have CC but the music is painfully loud so i also had to adjust volume way down and the voice track + music was still jarring

[@Charbond]

Take me back to the early 2000's when all i needed was a single fountain pen and 50,000 coloured, scented, marbled and glitter gel pens.

[@jericojopio1713]

As a high school teacher, I always enjoy checking my students' written test sheets using colored gel pens. Right now, I have red and green Sakura Gelly Rolls, red Tombow Aquagel gel pen, Pilot Juice gel pen in blue-black and dark red colors. I do use ballpoint pens, but I like how gel pens exude vibrant colors whenever I write on paper. By the way, some gel pens can write upside-down-in case one doesn't have Pilot Downforce, Tombow AirPress, Uni Power Tank, or Fisher Space Pen. Examples of those gel pens are Pilot Hi-Tec-C or G-Tec-C, Uni-ball Signo 307, Paper Mate Inkjoy, and Pentel EnerGel and Pentel Hybrid Technica. Thanks so much for introducing us to the history of gel pens, and more power to you, JetPens!😃🤗😉

[@sparklefulpaladin]

One of my teachers would grade papers and exams in various colors (other than red), as his philosophy was that red was a color associated with negative feelings from students and he wanted people to actually read his feedback. I think he most often used green or purple.

[@darkinertia2]

i distinctly remember when our library at our school had a jelly roll dispenser put in where you could buy a random color for 50 cents back in the last 90s and everyone went crazy for it

[@AMiniki]

My ride or die will always be the Pentel Energel needle tip on 0.5. I never liked gel pens until I tried this one and I don’t think I will ever be using anything different. I have it in a Zebra Sarasa Clip body and is just the perfect combination. Speaking of Zebra Sarasa, I love them too! The colour variety is perfect and I absolutely love to use to decorate my journal. I know there are many many options but these two are just he perfect pair for me. I don’t even take them out of my house, I carry a regular ballpoint pen in my bag 😅 Back in the day, when I was a broke Uni student, I had one “fancy” pen and it was a Gelly Roll pen in orange, perfect for titles and underline important info, and since it was orange no one ever asked for it 😁 Oh, I also use the white Gelly Roll instead of correction tape, works better, dries faster and is just super convenient.

[@cheryldueck318]

Energel refill in a Sarasa Clip pen body? 🤯 Awesome! I need to try this out. I love my Sarara Clip 0.5 in black, but hate having to buy a whole new pen every time (for cost and the environment). Thanks for sharing 😃

[@aekfuturewriter13]

I was and still am an avid gel pen user! As a kid, I loved the glitter Sakura gel pens, the zebra marble gel pens, and writing with the pentel milky gel pens on black paper! I still love using gel pens today! Thank you for sharing this!

[@rhondahuggins9542]

G2 has always had a place in my families favs. Though there has been some rogue activity into Sarasa. 🤭 My kids delved into GellyRoll in their school days, but I didn't think much of them. Now, I do lots of mixed media and the pens are part of my art supplies. Also, I was first introduced to Frixion while learning to quilt. The ink is much bolder and lasts until it's ironed away. The one drawback is not to use the pen in visible areas of the fabric. The ink returns when exposed to cold. There are 'horror' stories of marks returning when quilts have been transported to competitions. The maker's marks have become visible again, thus basically disqualifying the entry. Love your what you do!💚

[@jennywilder2962]

Loved this video and learning about Japanese pen history. Thanks.

[@panthercat38]

Gelly Roll pens were a hot commodity when they came out in my school.

[@rickrodrick1978]

I really enjoyed this video! I have lived through the whole history of the gel pen but was unaware of the gel pen timeline and important developments. It was truly interesting to see how it has been developed.

[@nicolegunawan8801]

Jetpens, i just want to tell you that you have attracted me to the world of stationery. Now, whenever i see a stationery shop, i always bug my parents to go in with me to shop. I went to bangkok 4 years ago and spent 10000 baht just on stationery, till my parents had to buy 2 extra large luggages just to fit all the stationery that i have bought

[@isaacs2539]

I just like the hand that loops those eee's so beautifully. So therapeutic. Is that Connie looping the eee's?

[@allyson_gari]

So nice!! I remember in my country the Sakura Gel pens appeared in the middle of the 90's. I knew them while I was studying at university.

[@quiltknit]

Yes! For years I only had a Blue Pen filled with Blue Ink! To have a Pen with Black ink was something like finding a Hundred Dollar Bill! Every time I got a Black Pen, it was taken from me! I have no memory of Foreign Pens or what pens they used except being told the Japanese wrote with brushes! I do remember that around the time I entered third grade there were packages of pens in a grocery store. They were all different colors on the outside! But, all Blue on the inside! Black was hard to come by! Businessman’s idea! No different colored inks, to expensive! Just think of the excessive expense of Pens with different Ink Colors! Will never be done! Long Live Jet Pens, with brushes Too!

[@tbayless8324]

Agreed. My schooling was from 1960's to 1980 I don't remember having all these colors that are available today. Just black, blue & red. I don't recollect having alot of colored ink. Money was sorta of tight in my family.

[@a22lotti]

Very interesting! As a fountain pen nerd, I wonder if there's some magic middle between purely water based fountain pen ink and gel ink that would still work in a fountain pen. It would obviously still have to be more liquid than gel to still make it through the pen's feed and not clog it up instantly, but what if you added a little Xanthan gum to FP ink to make it a little thicker, maybe a little more vibrant? Hm... maybe it's time for a science experiment. Although I'm sure someone must have had this thought already

[@andreacook7431]

JetPens actually sells some glittery fountain pen ink. I use a bright purple with silver sparkles.

[@khushil.4957]

I could never imagine life before gel pens

[@abrucoconu1611]

I'm late to the party as I'm binging on all the past JetPen videos, but I remember the Gelly Rolls waay back when it arrived in Hawaii. Everybody in my high school had these pens, and so I had to get them too even though my family didn't have a lot of money. But when I was able to get a pack they changed my life. I was also very afraid to use them all the time because I didn't want them to get used up because there were so many colors (orange was my least fav color).

[@ShugAveri]

I adore a needle nose pen. I used to have one of those Sarasa Marbles. I called it my party pen. good video :)

[@cynthiabrown-hernandez7528]

Cool video - thanks, JetPens! I'd love to see more like this!

[@SolidStick247]

Gel pens, even though they look vivid on paper, they tend to dry very fast inside the pen if not used for a long time.

[@nickyclassen2827]

Definitely would like to know more :)

[@stevekail4543]

I wasn't aware that there was a pen that would show up so well on black paper. I'm going to have to get some of the hybrid milky pens.

[@justTJRoots]

I can't believe you left out scented gel pens, my schoolmates and I were all obsessed with them in the late 90's here in the UK!

[@mollyrobbins1515]

More pen & stationery history please.

[@michellealdrich]

I loved everything about this 🥰 More please!

[@melanarbs]

More of these! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@charliecusano4759]

Bruh, frreal tho, the gellyroll pens are insanely good. My fav for SURE 😩👌 SOOO smooth

[@debidavis6164]

I love jelly roll pens! Especially for Christmas cards. 💕

[@nancylynnmorgan4964]

Absolutely fascinating!! Thank you!

[@LaLa_ArtGal]

I'm looking forward to trying the marble-colored gel pens.

[@LukaSauperl]

I want to know more about Japanese stationary history!

[@LETSG0WVU]

The Pilot Precise Gel-Rollers P-500/700 were life changing when they came out!

[@janicewong3494]

I never knew I would have fun learning about history-

[@ghlmk5931]

The Gelly Rolls are still top of the line for me. Be it glitter, metallic or white, those things last for years and never fail me. And Frixion pens are my go to for everyday journaling.

[@katismith]

Love the history. More please.

[@joechua8426]

Gonna try those dye-based ink pens! Thanks for showing them 😁

[@nikolass83gianni]

AWESOME video ... big THANKS from my heart ... best regards with big respect and have a wonderful time ... 🕊👏🙏😎

[@nattyw495]

Found this video interesting and informative, my one wish is that the jelly roll stardust and such will have refills and bottom cap easily removable fir refills that way the barrels are being in dumped in land fills

[@mardiweber2951]

I’ve loved pens forever! I love all the pens and all the colors. I also would love to know about the acrylic storage you used for the video. It’s a perfect place to keep LOTS of pens right on my desk!

[@JetPens]

Hi there! We get our storage items from IKEA or The Container Store.

[@mardiweber2951]

@@JetPens thank you!

[@ms-ht1cj]

One of the best of your videos. Please, more of the pens history. But I think you are a bit blindsided by Japanese firms. I remember using colour ballpoints in the 80/90s made by BIC, so...

[@caren7657]

Mich würden die Unterschied in der Papierqualität interessieren. In Deutschland bekommt man so wenig Auswahl was die Hefte für Schule und Studium angeht. Die Soft Ring Bindung und die unterschiedlichen Papierqualitäten finde ich sehr gut.

[@riggamorris9182]

This is such a fun video as I remember using all the pre-2010 pens on some point as a student. I also remember when Frixion pens were just released and they only came in one chunky body. I used them a lot in school and there was a joke between me and my classmates that we couldn't use that for national exams as our answer scripts were sent overseas to be marked, and the temperatures could cause the erased in to resurface. Now my go to are Zebra Sarasa pens. I just love the ink and the clip is really useful.

[@Scotty_Heh]

The Pilot G-2 is definitely my favorite!! It’s so smooth, smears a lot with a highlighter but it writes so well! I seem to have a thing for Pilot gel pens. I love their Juice Up line! I really should try that Uni-ball tho

[@jamesthelass6331]

The Uni Jetstream is my go-to non-fountain pen. I order them by the box online because I very rarely find them in stores.

[@HeidiRaatz]

Such great memories! I had a pen case full of different coloured gel pens that greatly improved my note taking in library school (late 1990s-early 2000s). Or so I'd like to think. 😄 Wish I could remember the brand, wasn't Gelly Roll. Stick type (no clip), many colours, refillable, though the refills weren't as reliably available as the pens themselves. Now, I really like the Zebra Sarasa MarkOn. Thx JetPens!

[@steffen8741]

I absolutely loved this video!! So informative and interesting for a pen geek like me, lol. I would love to see more history videos on different types of pens!! You guys rock!!

[@nika_cm]

Loved this informational video, especially the science part. Please do more like this !

[@LordWhatever]

That was an awesome recollection. Would love another video about the story of small point roller ball and ball point pens.

[@ewsizemore]

I'd love a history/survey of pencil holders and extenders. There have been so many designs over the years. Also, pencil tip protectors.

[@CreatingSelfCarePlans]

Wow! This was great! Thanks for the history lesson!

[@kokolexx]

Gel pens are my 2nd favorite after fountain pens!

[@karinavargas8505]

I love you videos I really hope you don't stop making them and I do plan to get some

[@leannezzers]

I love this video! Loved seeing the development of a product over the time, the resulting products, and if we can get those products now. I definitely have to try the marble ink sarasa pens! Great video, also love the technical explanations of the inks :D

[@tompov227]

this was a great idea for a video! I had not idea how new the gel pens I take for granted are 🤯. I can't believe the Energel and Sarasa Dry are that new! But anyway I love the Signo line and I was happy to see that make an early appearence but the DX is my favorite and I wonder now when exactly that came out 🤔

[@henriquenascimento5451]

Such an amazing video!!! Please, continue this series with other products/brands. It would be really nice to know about them even more \o/

[@edenfeuchtwang]

Awesome video! Learning the history of the things I use every day is so much fun. Makes me appreciate the time we live in :)

[@Eliza524]

I loved this!

[@jhylt4171]

Absolutely fantastic- history- I use my pens every day. Where can I buy the pen organizer used in this video? I need to organize my gels

[@Robert-xn3jb]

I came here for this answer also!

[@JetPens]

Hi there! We get our storage items from IKEA or The Container Store.

[@jhylt4171]

Thank you

[@rodsprague369]

I didn't realize I was the first to realize this, but I saw pens stored point up. Put pens point down so the ink does not detach from the tip. I have stopped having pens die before they run out of ink if I put them in the pen holder or store them point down. If the ink drips out of the tip, or the pen has a tip on both ends, store them level on their side.

[@rudytammylima4263]

Wonderful! I love pens!

[@pigetstuck]

loved it!

[@everythingforschools-madei3251]

Great videos!

[@justblue974]

I think I'm becoming more and more interested in pens and stationary

[@hisokamikage]

AAAHHH DOES ANYONE KNOW THE SONG??? its so calming sobs

[@leonidaspereirafilho499]

Great video, very interesting. I am definitelly getting the new zebra and sarasa pens!

[@RG-yf3uj]

Absolutely 💙 the history of things so this was so awesome & nostalgic 🙂 TFS. Can't wait for more videos like this. Ooh favorite 🤔 ugh that's hard. Currently probably the EnerGel vintage or black series. Well... Sarasa vintage is awesome also though Eeekkkk

[@sameeralazawee7524]

Thank you

[@Jessi-sj3zx]

I remember using the pastel multi color gel Pen to write notes in school. 😂

[@Clever_Catchphrase]

I remember being sooo jealous of another girl in my second grade class because she had some marble gel pens and I thought they were the most beautiful things in my life

[@323mell]

Awww I love my jellyroll, since the 90s I am in my 30s now and I still own them, new sets I love jellyroll💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@13noman1]

Appreciate the walk thru history! I'm a die-hard fountain pen fan, my absolute #1 preferred pen but for times when I can't use one, a gel pen is my 2d choice! Ballpoints for me are a distant third and even lower are roller balls; they just seem to dry out too fast. BTW, colored pens did exist before the gel pens, mostly in felt tips (eg, "Flair" pens of the 1960s) and even red, green, a few others in ballpoints (eg Bic) that I used in my grade school days -- but nothing like the range of today's gels!

[@janaweaver1235]

So informative and I really like hearing how the names of the Japanese companies are properly pronounced ! Thanks for another great video.

[@perevision]

The 90s section of this video was like a little time travel roller coaster for me, hahaha

[@penelopefp]

I wonder if the boom of scrapbooking in the 1990s influenced any of the inks. I know one reason the G2 ink is so popular is because it can't be "washed" from checks. Born in the late 60s, I was in a small rural area. When I moved to a larger city in the early 1990s I assumed colored gel pens had always been around. Little did I know!!

[@keekspostalservice]

Oh man, the Zebra Supermarble! I loved those!!

[@anjacvetkovic4214]

Could you please do a series where you like buy and rate stationery from other, smaller countries? I would really like that and I think some people would too. Also if you are going to keep up with this history series, maybe you can do higlighters next? ✏️✏️✏️ I love you channel 🥰🥰🥰

[@azounx]

This was so interesting! More history video clips, please! Maybe about the rise of the mechanical pencil?

[@JamilKhan-xu9fo]

This was great! I'd love to see one on erasers.

[@ngocgiangnguyen2973]

Please do a brush pens one .

[@davidklenk5253]

Great video Connie! How about a video on custom Japanese paper? 🤔

[@kimberlygallegos1505]

Yés enjoyed hearing the history

[@palashchoudhury5565]

I luv Gel Pen

[@OnStages]

I love gel pen.

[@SunshineFL]

Way cool.

[@furrymomo1]

cool information！so funny when you said it was pretty bleak back then with only black or blue pens hahaha！

[@OmicronTauKappaClassicDaddy]

Interesting!