18. The very first, 1993 edition of AutoCorrect in Microsoft Word only did nine things: (r) » ® adn » and don;t » don’t i » I incl » include occurence » occurrence recieve » receive seperate » separate teh » thepic.twitter.com/0a0Fr7kdWZ
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26. “Clearly this wasn’t implemented properly and we have disabled this feature for now.”https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-auto-reply-suggestions-live-videos …
27. Deep inside my public library, I found this oldie, but goldie from 1994.pic.twitter.com/s2P0sOYscR
29. Sort of the inverse of some of the above, but this entire thread is too good to pass up.https://twitter.com/cabel/status/1072976837783904256?s=21 …
30. “Facebook started testing an auto comment feature and promptly disabled it after users called the tool’s suggested comments on news coverage of a shooting «dystopian.»”https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-tests-one-click-comments/ …
(I’m beginning to see this thread as obligatory reading for anyone who ever tries to do smart things with people’s typed text.)
35. A fun video about the Scuntorphe problem from @tomscott:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE …
36. Oh, this makes me happy for so many reasons.https://vole.wtf/scunthorpe-sans/ …
40. Somewhere at the top of this thread I said “fun,” and I am not living up to this promise.https://twitter.com/Guinz/status/1280698069932277760 …
41. Human gene names MARCH1 and SEPT1 needed to be changed because Excel kept treating them as dates and messing stuff up.https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates …
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