Front and back covers of Mead Composition 100 sheet wide-ruled notebooks, from 1994 (left) and 2025 (right), 20 years apart. Fronts are in the top image, backs are in the lower.
Notable for both their similarities and their differences, the 1994's white front label very much appears to have been cut out by hand and pasted onto a background for photography and printing as would've still been common - if not typical - at the time, whereas the 2025 is naturally and clearly all-digital.
This particularly shows up in the back where the greater flexibility of digital allows for text to be placed on the faux-wrinkle-coat texture via strategic placement of black fill areas behind the otherwise-too-small text. All that text ended up in the large white medallion on the front of the 1994 edition, where legibility would've been assured.
Another small difference is that the tape binding on 1994 is smooth, whereas the 2025 has a distinct fabric texture to it, also visible in the scans when enlarged.