Some ideas are, at first glance, unworkable duds.
Yet with time, we become used to them to the point of toleration, and finally, they mellow into well-worn and comfortable fixtures in our lives. I'm not just talking about golf and marriage here. I can't say that I know when the first prepasted material came onto the market. Perhaps I would know if I could visit the Museum of American Paperhanging or something like it. I did, however, come upon a 1951 Sears, Roebuck catalog in the attic of the house we moved into, and was shocked to find that they offered a selection of prepasted wallpaper back then.