I love the way the IETF is still issuing reports formatted for ancient mainframe line printers, with hard-coded headers and footers and whatnot.
Paper has two advantages: it keeps carbon from becoming a greenhouse gas and quite probably outlasts all our other backup mediums.
"You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 500 page."
http://www.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-micro-e...
Think about what would happen if they made them all spiffy pdfs and then some guy 20 years from now would try to read them.
ASCII is forever, and having a page header on every page is relatively cheap, and helps to keep the context of which document you're looking at clear, the header is never more than 1/2 a page away.
It's quite hard to make a scrolling window with a steady header on a piece of paper ;)