From a linked article https://web.archive.org/web/20160308183811/http://1017.songtrellisopml.com/whatsbeenwroughtusingpiecetables https://web.archive.org/web/20

From a linked article https://web.archive.org/web/20160308183811/http://1017.songtrellisopml.com/whatsbeenwroughtusingpiecetables https://web.archive.org/web/20160308183811/http://1017.songt...: >It was also possible that characters that were still stored in the document file, had been deleted since those characters were first copied into the file. That meant if a user of the program had typed embarassing or incriminating text in a Word document, saved it and then thought better of publishing such thoughts, and erased them, that once saved text still was recorded in a Word file. If you used an operating system utility to dump the raw content of a fast saved Word file, this stuff became visible to the technically minded nosy person. This fast-save feature is hilarious and reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACropalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACropalypse. Wondering how many awkward stories out there caused by this ”optimization”.