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Lesson 1The CIYF history of computers skips over the details of the last two decades, which is the part that most people care about. If you're wondering just how Bill Gates came to power, here is a detailed history of computers. Why does Notepad make lousy printouts?This is simply the way Notepad works. The only way to guarantee that the printout will look the same as it does on the screen is to hit return at the end of every line. There is a good reason it works this way. Notepad creates documents in "plain-text", or ASCII, format. This is necessary for programming, creating web pages, and other applications where spaces and end-of-line markers may have special meanings. So Notepad allows a "line" of text to be as long as you want, even if that means it will run off the edge of the paper. The word-wrap feature in Notepad does as little as possible so the words can display, without inserting extra spaces or newlines. We will be using a full-featured word processor for most of the other assignments. However, you may want to return to Notepad in lesson 6 for the web page assignment.
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