I have a lot to thank the humble and useful Wordstar for. In college, I worked at a law firm and they were still using wordstar as well as wordperfect. Wordsta

I have a lot to thank the humble and useful Wordstar for. In college, I worked at a law firm and they were still using wordstar as well as wordperfect. Wordstar had this interesting markup that I quickly learned, and it was faster to use than moving around the screen with a mouse. Later on when I first viewed source on a web page, the markup looked quite familiar. My new career as a web developer had begun.