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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware'

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Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware'

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Microsoft Word turns 40
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In 1983, David Copperfield vanished the Statue of Liberty and Word for DOS turned up
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    I wonder if at least one non empty line from the original code is still present in today’s desktop version

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      In Firefox there is a Stack implementation that hasn’t been touched since the very beginning of the project. I bet there’s something like this in Word

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      Definitely there’s something like

      /* TODO fix this: I don't know why changing this line crashes the program */
      
      
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      Something for sure

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