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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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
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23. We might never learn this lesson / This might never cease to be hilarious:https://twitter.com/badmanbegins/status/956630644838359041 …
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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 …
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27. Deep inside my public library, I found this oldie, but goldie from 1994.pic.twitter.com/s2P0sOYscR
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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 …
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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/ …
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(I’m beginning to see this thread as obligatory reading for anyone who ever tries to do smart things with people’s typed text.)
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35. A fun video about the Scuntorphe problem from
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36. Oh, this makes me happy for so many reasons.https://vole.wtf/scunthorpe-sans/ …
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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 …
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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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