the.com/notepad
the app that outlived every fancier rival by refusing to do almost anything
launch yearshipped with Windows 1.0 in 1985
file limitearly versions choked past about 64 kilobytes
hidden bugtyping certain phrases once garbled text into gibberish
coder favoritebeloved for clean, formatting-free plain text
recent upgradegot tabs and autosave only in 2024