As Microsoft Word turns 40, we look at the role the software has played in four decades of language and communication evolution.

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.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

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

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      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??