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Her device freed secretaries from the typewriter. But as word processing became ubiquitous, it helped eliminate their jobs.

Douglas Engelbart during his 1968 demonstration. (credit: SRI International) A half century ago, computer history took a giant leap when Douglas Engelbart —then a mid-career 43-year-old engineer at Stanford Research Institute in the heart of Silicon Valley—gave what has come to be known as the " mother of all demos ." On December 9, 1968 at a computer conference in San Francisco, Engelbart showed off the first inklings of numerous technologies that we all now take for granted: video conferencing, a modern desktop-style user interface, word processing, hypertext, the mouse, collaborative editing, among many others. Even before his famous demonstration, Engelbart outlined his vision of the future more than a half-century ago in his historic 1962 paper,  "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework." Read 11 remaining paragraphs | Comments

Like many modern operating systems, macOS has a built-in spell checker that you can use or lose.

You can get Microsoft Office on an annual subscription plan that keeps you up to date with new features or buy it outright with far fewer updates.

You can add downloaded illustrations, graphics and photos to files created in Microsoft Word, Pages or other word-processing apps on Apple’s tablet.

Apple’s hardware can share apps and services through an iCloud account, making it possible to copy text on an iPhone and paste it on a Mac.

Free dictation tools convert speech to text and several popular programs now let you add text styling and other formatting by voice command.