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Yeah, I wasn't giving enough credit to how far back this goes. I think this version was supposed to be scanned in 2005, so I was thinking of it as a 2005 document.
I remember how frustrating it was for my dad to maintain a list of contact info. He had many different versions and they all had different information and different omissions.
I was only a kid so I didn't understand how big a deal it was, but I distinctly remember "mail merge" being advertised as a 'killer feature' of word processing software back in the early '90s.
Funny enough I have a pretty advanced typewriter with many word processor functions from the 90s. It has mail merge, believe it or not. I found it in front of someone's house on large trash day and bought new ribbons for it.
Only thing I couldn't get to work is the floppy drive, but it is super neat watching it print out what I've typed on the tiny screen into two columns.