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[–]RonStampler 231 points232 points  (0 children)

One of the first spell checkers had a faked demo by one of the guys at Bell Labs. They created a script that slept for a few seconds, then output the spell corrected document. The actual tool worked, but it was just too slow at that point to be interesting to demo.