VisiCalc was a ‘killer app’ years ahead of its time, and still says much about the way we understand computers Tidying my office the other day, as one does at this time of year, I came upon a shabby, ...

Individual user productivity is to Unified Communications as VisiCalc was to personal computing. VisiCalc, of course, was one the first software programs that enabled individuals to harness a PC to ...

This week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the public debut of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet and the personal computer industry’s original killer app. Co-creator Dan Bricklin has a post with some ...

Essential to the open source argument is the idea that the basic infrastructure of the information age is just that -- infrastructure -- and the public interest demands it be treated as such. This ...

This week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the public debut of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet and the personal computer industry’s original killer app. Co-creator Dan Bricklin has a post with some ...

Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the ...

Steven Levy reminded me that in 1979, VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program for personal computers and the app that turned the Apple II into a serious business machine. Here’s a DOS copy you can run ...