"It's weird to me that people need all these amazing tools to just write stuff."
Agree but have to say that when Pagemaker 1.0 came out on the Mac (might have been 512k) some people that I worked with talked about the creativity that just flowed. I think it was a mania induced by having the ability to see on the page the final product and what it looked like as opposed to just the words which someone else would typeset. (In other words to repeat the "high" created added to the creativity). Was hooked up to a Linotronic for camera ready copy.
Agree but have to say that when Pagemaker 1.0 came out on the Mac (might have been 512k) some people that I worked with talked about the creativity that just flowed. I think it was a mania induced by having the ability to see on the page the final product and what it looked like as opposed to just the words which someone else would typeset. (In other words to repeat the "high" created added to the creativity). Was hooked up to a Linotronic for camera ready copy.