Along those lines, here's a description of the project from the commissioning organization, e-2.org:

> As word processing software becomes ever more advanced, correcting syntax and spelling errors, these familiar programmes begin to impose a standardised corporate language onto our writing.

> Takahashi has produced her own fully functioning online version which undermines this dehumanising process. Reclaiming the initiative back from the software, Word Perhect presents an idiosyncratic hand-drawn interface leading to a set of functioning but strangely altered tools.

http://www.e-2.org/commissions/wordperhect.html

Reading a little bit more about the artist's background and so on makes me wonder what such a project might look like if it were created today.

And yet more: http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/archive/exhibitions/index.php?i...