9. Even more funny since I was the designer on this very feature at Google.pic.twitter.com/yiR02kIodj
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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
(By next time in Word 95, the AutoCorrect list was much more vast, including support for the most haggard-looking smileys in human history.)pic.twitter.com/aGJqKRXX8q
(And, did you know that modern Word has extra autocomplete FOR NERDS? I didn’t!)pic.twitter.com/BD6pWIoeqZ
(Funnily enough, I just watched my brain autocompleting “autocorrect” to “autocomplete.”)
19. Speaking of Word 95, this is when the (in)famous red underline appeared for the first time. In marketing Microsoft momentarily branded it as “Spell It,” but on day one the UI already simply said “Click the right mouse button on the red wavy underlined words.”pic.twitter.com/9K1gYJHZTd
21. Google's in news for blacklistting “gun” in Shopping so sloppily it breaks searches for “guns n roses,” “shogun warriors,” “glue guns,” “burgundy wine,” and so on.http://www.businessinsider.com/google-shopping-bans-gun-searches-water-guns-guns-n-roses-2018-2 …
22. Just wanted to share this for posterity… the first, original Word 6.0 AutoCorrect dialog box with the glorious *nine* entries, in 100% high fidelity. (I only saw it in a scan of a book before, so I installed Windows and Word in an emulator to get this.)pic.twitter.com/nEkj2uT2gQ
23. We might never learn this lesson / This might never cease to be hilarious:https://twitter.com/badmanbegins/status/956630644838359041 …
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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