I remember:

what a bad reputation my school gave the ballpoint pen aka the "bic" as opposed to its counterpart the fountain pen. The fountain pen was supposed to force us to take care of the connection between letters and exercise fluidity in the movement of the hand. If by misfortune, we used the bic, it was bad omen, bad style: chopped, interrupted, discontinuous; it would almost look like a text typed on a typewriter, a form of mimetism lacking genuinity. While the elegance of the hand assured ... What tensions, what quarrels, what stakes around these writing options. Today, one could say that the battle is relegated to another level: click vs. scroll & swipe.