It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...

Kirschenbaum, an English professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, presents a well-researched, scholarly history of how early electronic typewriters, word processors, and ...

A Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, similar to the one Nietzsche used. Peter Mitterhofer, CC BY-SA “Our writing instruments are also working on our thoughts.” Nietzsche wrote, or more precisely typed, this ...

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...

Poor little TextEdit! Despite having a rich history—starting life as Edit in the Next’s NextStep operating system before becoming a feature in Mac OS X—the app gets little regard. But it deserves our ...

3 tips to maximize Apple’s free Pages word processing app Your email has been sent Pages, Apple's alternative to Microsoft Word, is deceptively simple. Here are three ways to get the most of Apple's ...