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		<title>The humble Word Processor &#8211; a computing revolution</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, sense2cents takes you down memory lane for a bit. This is one of those posts. So, flashback to 1990.

In a brightly lit, air conditioned office a teenage boy is bent over a computer screen watching as a smartly-dressed man types at a computer terminal. The boy watches in amazement as the screen keeps filling and scrolling up. He listens intently as the clackety-clack of the keyboard makes words appear on the screen as if by magic.

Once all the typing is done, the man calls to the boy to pay close attention - he is about to demonstrate what the boy has come to really see - he selects a paragraph of text and uses the "Cut" function to make it vanish. He then scrolls up a couple of paragraphs, selects the "Paste" function and presto - the vanished paragraph magically reappears in the new place. What's more, the existing text actually moves over to make space for the newly inserted paragraph!

The teenager cannot help but marvel at this miracle of technology. He asks the man to explain to him (yet again) how a paragraph of text can be removed from the place it was once written in and made to appear somewhere else in the document. The man patiently explains that the machine is a computer, not a typewriter and that it is all digitized and hence, intangible.

The man then proceeds to print a copy of the document on a dot-matrix printer and the boy marvels as he sees the neat words appear on the page as the printer continues to buzz and spit out paper. The boy understands precious little of what he has seen and heard in that little incident, but deep within, he knows he had been shown something that he will never, ever, forget. He also realizes that he has found something that he can devote his entire life to studying and make a career of - the science of Computers.]]></description>
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