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@Mappletons
Given your current historical knowledge (and without googling), who would you say "invented" the interface pattern of blocks and block-based editors? Spoiler: I don't think there's a single, cut-and-dry answer. But open to being proved wrong. Interested in popular perception.
  • Microsoft's OLE
    27%
  • OpenDoc
    20.5%
  • Notion
    31.9%
  • Other (comment below)
    20.5%
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Matt Mullenweg
@photomatt
The first Gutenberg mocks were in 2012, and at the time we were inspired a lot by post formats in WordPress 3.1 (2011), which came from Tumblr (2007), and probably a ton before that, especially Hypercard.
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