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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look at you Mr. Fancy Pants using Windows.

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  • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had Corel WordPerfect for Linux.

    You could modify the SGML codes to create documents that were compatible with all other versions of WordPerfect and MS Word, but he features that were supported in the document format, but not in the software.

    For instance, I could change use more than the 16 colours that the Word for Windows UI allowed you to use, even though the displayed correctly in the WYSIWYG editor and printed correctly.

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    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh god, SGML. That’s a memory I had successfully repressed.

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    • satanmat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hell yeah. I ran Corel Linux their last gasp at a pivot….

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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Before Correl bought WordPerfect and made it usable!

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  • nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this was the version right before WYSIWIG support was added. So you could still use fonts, and change font sizes but on screen it would show a strange notation but not the actual font. Complex layouts were tough 😅

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  • Gobo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was about to say. Wp5 on dos 5.0 with the blue screen.

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• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am not quite that old, but I learned digital media creation in the Macromedia Suite… Dreamweaver, Flash… before Adobe bought them out.

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  • codapine@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I cut my hobby web design teeth on Macromedia Fireworks. Adobe’s output sucks in comparison to mm.

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    • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I, too, was forged in the fires of Macromedia.

      Before the dark times. Before the empire.

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  • Snowyday@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fun fact: Macromedia didn’t create Flash. They bought out another company

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• MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fun fact, I read that GRRM still writes using a DOS copy of WordPerfect

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe he just hasn’t written anything since it was the standard.

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    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Daaaaaamn

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• biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Back in my day, and to this day, Microsoft offers such huge discounts in academia on licensing, and recruit so many students from university, I never saw anything but MS.

  I’m glad we are at least in an age that there’s alternative to Microsoft in the free and open source space for individuals even when school goes down their path.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had MS Works for DOS at home as a ternager. Let’s just say I don’t miss the way spell check worked before the red squiggly line was invented.

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  • jdf038@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I too was once a ternager 😉

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Needs more toolbar buttons.

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Word perfect in 1990 was better than Word is today.

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• philnc@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WordPerfect 5. On DOS. Over NetWare. But XyWrite was the one true wordprocessor.

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• LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Formatting in word-perfect was so easy. You could turn on view all formatting and it made sense. Bold on here, bold off here .

  This was long before Word came along and formatting became some invisible apply-object thing

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man, reminds me of how we used AlphaSmart machines, which were like horrible little physical word processors. upload.wikimedia.org/…/Alphasmart_pro.jpg

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