Ah #WordPad. Introduced with Windows 95 in 1995. Goodbye buddy.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/05/wordpad_off_windows_11/
Before I switched mostly to #Apple and #MacOS I was a big #Windows user and I had a big love/hate relationship with it.
@davidbisset I kind of forgot it existed. It was underpowered as a word processor and inserted too much formatting to use it as a text editor.
@hensley when it first came out it was decent. I was coding, so I was mostly sticking with notepad, but there was no Google Docs or any quick to load or minimalistic app. It was the Apple notes of its day, but it was supplanted a few years later. If I remember correctly, it also used to proprietary file format.