Word 5.1 nostalgia

I came across an interesting article on Wired News about the greatness (in many people's minds) of Word 5.1:

www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63848,00.html

and a riposte by Davide Guarisco:

www.wired.com/news/rants/0,2350,63931,00.html

in which he writes:

While I confess that I wrote my Ph.D. thesis in Word 5.1, I now look back and marvel at how ignorant and naive I was at the time ... Yes, Word 5.1 may be the best version of Word ever, but my esteem of Word has gone way down. Now that I have gotten to know FrameMaker and LaTeX, I realize that Word is nothing more but a completely wrong-headed approach to word processing (and a horrible piece of software, too). Now I think that Word is like a cancer, an evil virus pervasive because of ignorance. Get rid of it!