Tomoko Takahashi's Word Perhect
A similar impulse is at work in Tomoko Takahashi’s WordPerhect [sic] (1999), an online piece (rendered in Flash) that presents the user with a roughly drawn cartoon word processing interface, limned in what appears to be black ink on a white background.88 Typing generates crude, seemingly handwritten, less-than-perfect characters on the screen. Takahashi’s word processor is fully functional, but the interface yields an inversion of the typical user-friendly experience. Clicking on the Mail icon produces the following set of instructions, which appear as a scrap of notepaper “taped” to the screen: “print the document, put into an envelope or something similar [sic] which can contain the document. Go to post office and weigh it and buy stamps”—and so on, for another hundred words, including further typos and blemishes.
Ref Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, Pg. 205-206
From the e-2.org description page:
Apparently this file is a "QuickTime panorama," but I don't have anything that understands it:
As word processing software becomes ever more advanced, correcting syntax and spelling errors, these familiar programmes begin to impose a standardised corporate language onto our writing. Takahashi has produced her own fully functioning online version which undermines this dehumanising process. Reclaiming the initiative back from the software, Word Perhect presents an idiosyncratic hand-drawn interface leading to a set of functioning but strangely altered tools.
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The product from sending one of my WordPerhect documents to print.