Happy 80th Birthday to Scotch Tape-Savior of the Klutzes [Scotch Tape]

Whether it’s holding together your glasses, the TV remote or your grandmother’s birthday present, Scotch tape has been one of the crucial constants in our lives since before we are able to remember. Today, lift your beer for its 80th birthday.

In the same old manner of age-old products, we’re not entirely sure today is the actual 80th birthday of the cellotape (or sticky-tape, while you will), though it’s the closest thing we’ve got to an anniversary, going by the date 3M began marketing it.

Do you know why scotch tape is so-called, though? As the story goes, a car dealer was irritated with 3M’s thriftiness at only placing adhesive stripping down the edges of the tape, he labeled it ” scotch tape,” after Scotland’s reputation for minding its money.

While a lot of companies now produce the sticky tape, 3M’s is thought to be the first, with the eu brand Sellotape birthed just seven years later. [ Wired ]

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