I remember sitting in front of WordPerfect for many, many hours as a teenager, writing essays and whatnot for school. We were fortunate to have an HP LaserJet at home that my dad used for work. The output looked great and WordPefect’s interface wasn’t terribly hard to get used to.
My more sophisticated friend had Windows 3.1 and blew my mind with the WISIWYG capabilities of early versions of Word.
Ironically, I now do much of my writing in vi.