davidbarker · 240 points · 38 comments · 6 hours ago · Open original
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DAdavidbarker6 hours ago
I wanted to make a faithful recreation of the original WordArt so I went through the various screenshots I could find and tweaked the built-in styles by eye. It's pretty fun to play with, and I didn't realise it would take me back to sitting in the ICT computer rooms at my school in the late '90s.
Enjoy!
And please feel free to share anything you make with me — I'd love to see. (Contact details in the help menu.)
MImixdup5 hours ago
One of the weirdest bits of 90s tech trivia: Scott Forstall, who was in charge of software at Apple when the iPhone was initially developed, when working as an Intern at Microsoft contributed to the development of WordArt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall#Present
SIsixeyes17 minutes ago
wow, thanks! i was JUST thinking about booting up some old VM so that i could play with word art again. yay =^.^=
DSdstu2 hours ago
Oh this takes me back, what a cool project. Can someone reinvent the internet from that era next please?
MEmeerita2 hours ago
Who else remembers using BannerMania and printing those endless banners on Epson dot-matrix printers with continuous paper? Man, those were the days! What a nostalgia trip!
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I wanted to make a faithful recreation of the original WordArt so I went through the various screenshots I could find and tweaked the built-in styles by eye. It's pretty fun to play with, and I didn't realise it would take me back to sitting in the ICT computer rooms at my school in the late '90s. Enjoy! And please feel free to share anything you make with me — I'd love to see. (Contact details in the help menu.)
One of the weirdest bits of 90s tech trivia: Scott Forstall, who was in charge of software at Apple when the iPhone was initially developed, when working as an Intern at Microsoft contributed to the development of WordArt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall#Present
wow, thanks! i was JUST thinking about booting up some old VM so that i could play with word art again. yay =^.^=
Oh this takes me back, what a cool project. Can someone reinvent the internet from that era next please?
Who else remembers using BannerMania and printing those endless banners on Epson dot-matrix printers with continuous paper? Man, those were the days! What a nostalgia trip!