Sometimes recent historY is the hardest to see. Consider the computer and its word processing software — programs like Microsoft Word that allow us to write letters or resumes or, for professional ...

The first word processor, as cultural critic Josephine Livingstone once wrote, was effectively “the human woman” — employed, as a secretary, to compose, revise and print reams of letters, reports, ...

The literary history of the early years of word processing—the late 1960s through the mid-’80s—forms the subject of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s new book, Track Changes. The year 1984 was a key moment ...

Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

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There are a handful of gadgets that do one thing so well that they become cult classics long after the company that made them has moved on or closed up shop. [This Does Not Compute] takes us through ...

Adobe has acquired BuzzWord, a beautiful Flash-based word processor. But we recommend against using it until the company can add in necessary features. Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products ...

Evelyn Berezin, a physicist, computer engineer and entrepreneur, designed some of the earliest computer systems for banks, airlines, stock exchanges and horse tracks. She was a female visionary in a ...