... Except of course it's still relevant in some specialized areas like TeX, which are *not* WYSIWYG. And possibly wikis.
We really have advanced.
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The obsolesence of WYSIWYG
When is the last time you used the term "WYSIWYG" seriously? I was just randomly thinking about the history of computing and it occured to me that it is practically an obsolete term today, mostly because everything *is* WYSIWYG.
Posted on 2010-10-18T12:30 by ivoras
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#1 Re: The obsolesence of WYSIWYG
Which makes me think of another permanent buzzword: "Paperless office". It's been floating around for ages, at least as long as WYSIWYG. And yet, we're not even half way there. If anything, your average office seems to be producing ever-growing quantites of paper documents. I'm beginning to think of it as vapourware, like Duke Nukem Forever... I wonder which will come to existence first?
#2 Re: The obsolesence of WYSIWYG
Actually, I don't know about "paperless office" as failure. I'm not sure but I sort of think that if you compare the ratio of the amount of business done by a company and its dead-tree-paperwork that the ratio was probably reduced in the last 20 years. I have a feeling that todays' "average" companies are simply doing much more business than their equivalent companies did 20 years ago. I'm mostly basing this on an observation that it used to be enough to sell a small number of $things (whatever they were) at a high enough margin to have a profitable business, while today the sales volume is higher but the profit margins are lower. Everybody's fighting for the long tail.