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 ...

Ariel Fischman’s office shelves are a veritable museum devoted to the era of VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Multiplan, and other products that once duked it out for number-crunching supremacy. In a world in ...

Much of the early success of consumer electronics giant Apple Inc. was due to the demand of businesses for the Apple II home computer to run the VisiCalc spreadsheet software application. VisiCalc and ...

With all the new programs, applications and devices being released on an almost daily basis, the spreadsheet's story and its legacy as a powerhouse could be lost. The story of the electronic ...

AI can get a bad rap. The idea that artificial intelligence can automate work naturally raises the question, “Well, what happens to the people who were doing that work?” While that is a valid question ...

During the dawn of the PC era, a single program was touted as the “killer app” that fired the market for personal computers. That program was a spreadsheet called VisiCalc. Now, another spreadsheet ...

Be afraid, be very afraid... "Spreadsheets." The very word is enough to strike fear into the heart of seasoned business folk. While the VisiCalc spreadsheet was the killer app for early Apple ...

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 and Bob Frankston, the developers of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software program, commemorated "National Spreadsheet Day" on Tuesday. The event was hosted by Centage, a provider of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. One of the first PC classes I took around 1980 was dedicated ...

One thing I found especially interesting about Adobe's new Acrobat.com announcements this week (Techmeme coverage here) is its hybrid spreadsheet/database application called Tables. I already ...