On Word and WordPress

Note: I'm not a wordpress user, but this struck me as interesting.

In the early days of word processing, there was a clear distinction between data and formatting. In wordperfect and other tools, rendering was a separate step.

We all embraced WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) with graphical OSes, and haven't looked back.

It strikes me that blogging has us returning to that earlier model. My data, what I enter, is largely separate from its display and formatting. The two are separate again!