2006-07-30 22:08:34 · 7 answers · asked by Ngobabe 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
We started processing words as soon as we had more than one.
I remember using programs where you had to use . (dot) commands. If you wanted to underline a word, you had to type in .ul before the word
That was sometime in the seventies. My first 'home' computer was bigger than most fridge/freezers these days and its capacity was considerably less than my mobile phone.
I aslo remember steam trains - but then I'm ancient.
2006-07-30 22:18:41 · answer #1 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IBM got the ball rolling in the 1960s. i'm sure there's a whole helluva lot of info on the evolution of it, but i'm a bit too stupid to know too much about it. no doubt there are plenty of sources who can help out with that, and no one at yahoo answers could possibly know less than i do.
2006-07-31 05:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by pyg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the invention of the printing press.
2006-07-31 05:12:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone got to lazy to write with a pen!!
2006-07-31 05:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by brazilian_waxer_06 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sarted with a typewriter and then moved to a computer
2006-07-31 05:10:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
drawings & talleys
2006-07-31 05:13:47 · answer #6 · answered by LeBlanc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no idea
2006-08-03 14:26:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋