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by gumby 1419 days ago
Also in the Mac since the original OS X beta…iirc it was in the NeXT too.
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This was the feature that sold me on Mac OS X in 2003 or so. Having an operating system where I could get the dictionary definition of any word in any input field, or web browser, or piece of UI just by mousing-over it and hitting ctrl+command+D

I was a Windows user at the time and the _consistency_ of this dictionary lookup throughout the UI just blew me away