• Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip
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      1 year ago

      Boomer spreadsheet program.

      Not literally, it came out in 83 - it was the original ‘killer app’, and was behind the widespread adoption of microcomputers into business in the pre-network and internet days.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        it was the original ‘killer app’

        That’d be VisiCalc from all the way back in 1979. The slam-dunk argument against Steve Jobs wanting the Apple II to be a glorified appliance with only built-in applications. A lesson he still hadn’t fucking learned by the time the iPhone came out.

        Lotus 1-2-3 was the IBM PC answer to that 8-bit microcomputer program. VisiCalc had a DOS version, but it was a deliberately identical port. Bugs and all. Lotus bought the company within two years of launching its properly modern competitor.