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The Death of WYSIWIG

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Lance Cummings
May 27, 2021
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What You See is What You Get (or WYSIWYG) was invented by Xerox to sell printers instead of copiers. We are all familiar now with WYSIWYG technology … in fact, it is so ubiquitious, most people don’t know what it is called. Programs like Microsoft or content boxes in WordPress (or Medium) a…

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