14. And then there’s this:https://twitter.com/markedly/status/943188943977238528 …
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15. “We used predictive keyboards trained on all seven books to ghostwrite this spellbinding new Harry Potter chapter.” https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/940627812259696643 …
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(Not too into Harry Potter? How about Arrested Development?)https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/943542693401120772 …
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Botnik Studios @botnikstudiosWe present Season 5 Ep 1 of Arrested Development, by human writers on predictive text keyboards. Ready for table read, Ron Howard. Writers:@jonahformayor,@PissMistress,@zachbdunn,@drspam,@spies_please,@tgeller,@johnabender, @therealaskj,@dmillstein http://j.mp/2DfFLar pic.twitter.com/9m8lNnjC1i1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
16. A nice interview with the creator of Botnik:https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jamie-brew-predictive-text-clickhole-coding-comedy/ …
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17. Today’s word: cacography, a “deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacography E.g. teh awesome, hueg like Xbox, and so on?
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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
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Replying to @mwichary
And by 1997 they were also autocorrecting ":-)" into an inline image, according to online discussions. This is the earliest automated emoticon substitution I've found so far, but I find it hard to believe that MS did anything first.
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Replying to @WideSpacer
If in Word, I believe it’d be 1995, with the release of Word 95. Also, unsure if it was it an image, rather than a glyph in Wingdings or Webdings?pic.twitter.com/Rxc8rhjxrJ
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Replying to @WideSpacer
Verified Word 95 in another source. These smileys look WRETCHED.pic.twitter.com/cGwMgihnFP
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(Entirely possible this is not Wingdings, but the bitmap system font they had? MS something.)
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