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camiller on March 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops th...

One thing I remember about Encarta back when the Pentium 75mHz was king, If you copied a passage of text and pasted it into MS word, it automatically generated a footnote entry. To this day I've never seen any other software do that. (Not saying there isn't any, I've just not seen it)

pnathan on March 14, 2012 | [–]

There was (is?) some software called PC Study Bible that did/does that.

nodata on March 14, 2012 | [–]

and if you copy and pasted an image, it would appear black.

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