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fleabiscuit

(4,542 posts)
3. What you see is what you get.
Mon May 7, 2018, 05:59 PM
May 2018

Once I had to take a word processing class and thought "not problem" do that a lot at home, using a very early mac. Went into the classroom and they were using a wordperfect product with all these cheat sheets telling what key combinations you needed to add formatting. Jesus, they were using stone knives and bear skins.

marble falls

(57,152 posts)
4. With Aldus Pagemake that was a fucking lie. Made type setting like darts some times. I earned my....
Mon May 7, 2018, 06:15 PM
May 2018

my paychecks!

canetoad

(17,175 posts)
5. I remember Pagemaker!
Mon May 7, 2018, 06:29 PM
May 2018

Good program too. Before InDesign it was either Pagemaker or Quark Express.

WYSIWIG may have been around before the internet but my first memory of usage was to describe web-page building programs where you didn't have to hand-write the code in a text editor.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
6. So many acronyms I've forgotten
Mon May 7, 2018, 06:32 PM
May 2018

I had forgotten GIGO till I took a business computers class. Does anyone remember the "turtle" from basic?

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