Early Typography
Text modification dates back to medieval manuscripts where scribes developed various styles of writing and decorative text. These early forms of text modification were done entirely by hand.
Digital Evolution
The advent of digital typography in the 1980s revolutionized text modification, introducing new ways to style and format text. Unicode, developed in 1991, further expanded possibilities for text modification across different writing systems.
Modern Era
Social media and messaging platforms have driven new innovations in text modification, leading to creative ways of expressing emphasis and emotion through styled text.