10 Inventions that Killed Businesses

5. Digital Word Processors

To most millennials, type-writers are entities of the past and belong to an era of their grandparents. It might seem odd to people belonging to other generations but this is a fact. The fact of the matter is that with the advent of digital word processors, typewriters have vanished into oblivion. As the 70s dawned upon us, inventions like Microsoft Word, started to make way for next wave in maintaining documents. It took Microsoft a while to set its foot in the market but it did a tremendous job at it. It was preferred over type-writers so much that eventually typewriters had to accept defeat. As MS Word is a user-friendly software and still dominates the market, other digital word processors, even Apple i-Work, strive to occupy a decent percentage of the market. In 2009, Microsoft said that Microsoft Office suite, including MS Word, is used by more than half a billion people in the globe. While, seattlepi.com said that only less 500 typewriters existed in the world.