# 3 Punch Cards

Regarded as an obsolete medium now, punched cards were widely used throughout the 19^th and 20^th centuries in unit record machines for input, processing and data storage. It is a strip of perforated cardboard that seems ridiculous in this age where everything is stored and archived electronically saving lot of time and storage space.

However, almost 450 million punch cards are being sold every year for use. The best consumers are government offices which choose to use them, in order to keep offline records rather than storing them online as masked lunatics on the internet can’t steal them. If you have wondered why they have dusty shelves with lots of files stored on them, punch cards would be the reason.

Even small businesses cannot afford to upgrade their systems every time. So using punch cards may not necessarily mean that they hate technology, it is because they are insanely cheap.

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