Post-it Notes are small pieces of paper with a strip of re-adherable adhesive on the back, launched by 3M in 1980 after chemist Spencer Silver developed a low-tack, reusable adhesive in 1968 and colleague Art Fry found a practical use for it as a bookmark that would not damage pages. Widely cited as a textbook example of a product invented from a failed experiment (Silver's adhesive had originally been considered too weak to be useful), it became a near-ubiquitous office and household product and one of 3M's best-known brands.
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Post-it Notes were invented at 3M in 1968 (Spencer Silver's adhesive, Art Fry's application) and remain one of 3M's best-known consumer products.
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A Post-it note (or sticky note) is a small piece of paper with a re-adherable strip of glue on its back, made for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces.
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