>People did not program word processors themselves as they didn't exist, typewriters did.

That's funny. I had to laugh that off.

Now the type in magazines at the time were amazing - especially with error checking "co-routines" to make sure you did it right. But there were bugs in printed material that a month or two later you could fix from the errors section. Best use case of a subscription model assuming you didn't want to fix it yourself or redo it all etc... Also as a side to that there was a barcode scanner for the code for a few publications.

Fun times.