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Comment Being dumb was its best feature (Score 4, Insightful) 100

Notepad was one of the last bastions of dumb software, something that did its one job well enough without being complicated.

I'd use it as a canary to see if windows rebooted itself. But then they changed it so that would restore its state when that happened.

It could be trusted to keep your secrets safe from a spell checker, to let you type verbatim without distraction, reminiscent of a typewriter.

RIP classic notepad

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