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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed (gizmodo.com)
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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed::It's truly the end of an era as we say farewell to a real one.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

VBA automation backend

That was in the first Word for Windows for 1989. The scripting built into word was later rebranded as VBA. I used it in 1990 to replicate the "Give me a Cookie" prank that was on Vax/VMS at the time.