Some of it is driven by available technology. It would have been very hard to have a great spell-check functionality on early home computers, like my 48k Apple II+, simply because of the hardware.
Did we ever need a v2 for the hammer, or drafting pencil?
Hammers did indeed evolve quite a bit from their stone age original form, though the general shape and principle have remained the same.
There is a modern claw hammer halfway up the left side in this illustration from 1514:
Some of it is driven by available technology. It would have been very hard to have a great spell-check functionality on early home computers, like my 48k Apple II+, simply because of the hardware.
Did we ever need a v2 for the hammer, or drafting pencil?
Hammers did indeed evolve quite a bit from their stone age original form, though the general shape and principle have remained the same.
There is a modern claw hammer halfway up the left side in this illustration from 1514:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Melencolia_I_(Durero).jpg
Drafting pencils have been around from the late 1500s:
http://leadholder.com/main-history.html#leadholder_origins
It's arguable that truly modern ones didn't appear until the 20th century, however.