The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed the way we use language::As Microsoft Word turns 40, we look at the role the software has played in four decades of language and communication evolution.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There were books of letter and document templates, folks. Microsoft did not invent the semi-block format.

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      1 year ago

      Right?

      I’d posit WWII was the single greatest influence in recent history for more extensive standardization of just about everything in the business/project management/production/transportation/logistics worlds, and guess what - they all use tools like documentation and communication documents.

      There were typing pools… And somehow Word standardized how docs are written/created??