WordStar

Well, it's funny.

I remember learning Control-Y in an editor called WordStar.

which I think ran on old mini computers, but I had it running on DOS way back in the day.

And it was really my first code editor.

WordStar is what I used for editing Dbase files.

And for a while, it's what I used as an editor for Clipper.

I think I later went to an editor called QEdit, and then later to an editor called MultiEdit.

it deletes a line, right? It

PlayStation.

WordStar.

Yeah.

PlayStation, gaming, like every sector that they went into, they weren't necessarily first to market, but when they took a sector, they owned it.

I wonder who did that.

Because, you know, when you think about the markets that they went in a long time ago, Lotus 1, 2, 3, they pop up, eventually smash it, Lotus 1, 2, 3 is gone.

Not just smaller gone, WordStar, WordPerfect, gone, gone, gone.

But then in more recent years, you know, we've seen from our position a pretty heavy battle against Salesforce.

So this is my take.

If we never really advanced any of the software we use, we'd all be using WordStar to punch up reports or book reports or whatever.

we would still be clicking through a bunch of GIF flooded pages with obnoxious noises and really ugly color schemes.

Because why upgrade? Why update any of that? But the thing is, as soon as you give something that has the taste of the future, that gives either convenience stylistically, it feels a little more modern.

So this is my take.

If we never really advanced any of the software we use, we'd all be using WordStar to punch up reports or book reports or whatever.

we would still be clicking through a bunch of GIF-flooded pages with obnoxious noises and really ugly color schemes.

Because why upgrade? Why update any of that? But the thing is, as soon as you give something that has the taste of the future, that gives either convenience stylistically, it feels a little more modern.