While working at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, Simonyi and a colleague named Butler Lampson created Bravo, the world’s first WYSIWYG word processor. While researching the slideshow, I contacted Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie - two early Microsoft employees who worked together to create the first versions of Microsoft Word. It included slides on the history of the software and some oddities as well - remember Clippy? In October 2008, I created a slideshow to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Word for.
