Sentence examples for advent of word from inspiring English sources

Handwritten messages have long been a necessity in Japan, where the written language is so complex, with two sets of symbols and 2,000 characters borrowed from Chinese, that keyboards remained impractical until the advent of word processors in the 1980s.

But the advent of word processors and computers changed that because nearly all their fonts are variable-width except a couple handful of fixed-width ones that imitate typewriter fonts, the best known of which is… the Courier family.

Some years ago, everyone was enthusiastic about the paperless office that would be made possible by the advent of word processing and computers.

After all, Eco wrote his thesis-writing manual before the advent of widespread word processing and the Internet.

Reading his description of what we now recognise as an iPod-plugged web surfer you have to remind yourself that it was written on an Olympia typewriter long before the advent of the word processor or the mobile phone.

A few decades ago, the advent of the word processor made it easier than ever to revise on the fly; it also made it easy to dwell on one sentence ad infinitum, gilding the lily where once one would've advanced to the next thought.

See also other forms: Phonely (Adjective) With the advent of the word phoneliness, many song lyrics can be immediately modernized.

For a long time (let's just say from the advent of the written word until Myspace), the only words that were indiscriminately disseminated to the public were written by professionals: newspapers, advertisements, books, pamphlets, journals, etc... Today however, a massive amount of the text that comes across my computer screen is written by amateurs.

Before the advent of social media, word of mouth was the only true method of accomplishing this -- aided in part by previews and ads in periodicals.

The Internet is permanent, yet paradoxically, since the advent of the Internet, words have become more ephemeral and less intentional.

The advent of Fox News has been more momentous.