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The World’s First Word Processor

Estimated read time 6 min read

Before ‘cut and paste’ existed on a screen, there was the Friden Flexowriter, a revolutionary machine that used punched paper tape to edit text. Discover the story of this forgotten pioneer, which transformed writing from a permanent act into a process of data manipulation, paving the way for the digital world and computational linguistics.