On the 11th of January 1982 twenty two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with 'computer mail' (now known as email). Attendees included the guy who would create Sun Microsystems, the guy who made Zork, the NTP guy, and the guy who convinced the government to pay for Unix.

In fact, it has been a constant source of delight for me over the past year to get to continually tell hordes (literally) of people who want to - strap yourselves in, here it comes - control what their documents look like in ways that would be trivial in TeX, Microsoft Word, and every other common text processing environment: "Sorry, you're screwed."