====== Handwriting ======

| **Field** | The practice of writing on hands |
| **Went Obsolete** | Industrial Age |
| **Made Obsolete By** | Paper |
| **Knowledge Assumed** | Ability to read |
| **When useful** | Relaying messages |

The practice of writing text on one hand of a message bearer. The message bearer would travel great distances with a clenched fist, only to open his hand upon arriving at the house of the addressee.