ImpressionSoft@Work has an overview of the history of MS Word, from version 1.0 all the way up to Word 2007. Do you remember when Microsoft added real-time spell checking or the ability to draw to Word? What about the first version to include the annoying paper clip pop-up assistant?
If the trip down memory lane is making you nostalgic, don't forget that you Microsoft made Word 5.5 for DOS available as a free download a while back. And the download link still works.
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3-11-2008 @ 10:43AM
Eric Riback said...
I'm way too old --- WordStar (along with Multiplan and dbaseII), and my first PC was a DEC Rainbow with an amber (not green!) display.
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3-12-2008 @ 8:30AM
Frank Reynolds said...
LOL... Word? WordStar? Do your parents know you're skipping school today? Try Scripsit on a TRS-80 Model I in 1979, outputting to an Okidata dot-matrix printer. THAT was word processing.
I actually made money a few years later writing an article explaining how to add fonts to ColorWrite, one of the earliest WYSIWYG word processors, on the TRS-80 Color Computer.
Are you guys even old enough to remember when WYSIWYG was a feature, instead of an acronym that was quickly forgotten as soon as everything was just assumed to look identical on screen and in print?
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