We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance you are talking about an Excel spreadsheet, and if not, at least a program ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1976, computer pioneers Steve ...

Microsoft Excel celebrates 40 years as the spreadsheet that reshaped business and personal computing New AI-powered tools and creative communities extend Excel’s uses far beyond accounting Google ...

MIT professor Bill Aulet chuckled to himself when he decided to invite his old friend and famed software programmer and investor Mitch Kapor to give a speech about entrepreneurship at the school this ...

Unlike its Apple-1 predecessor, the Apple II was polished and ready for the mass market. It featured a keyboard, BASIC compatibility and, most notable of all, color graphics. Despite being the company ...

VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program released in 1979 for the Apple II computer. It was easy to use and allowed for data sorting and storing in tabular rows and columns. VisiCalc was created to ...

For many, Microsoft Excel is the epitome of corporate drudgery. Its dreaded #VALUE! error has driven an incalculable number of users to despair. Yet among financial ...

Have you found this content useful? Use the button above to save it to your profile. “In those days, if you showed it to a programmer, he’d say ‘Yeah, that’s neat. Of course computers can do that – so ...

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 ...

When the spreadsheet launched in 1979, it was a bewildering piece of software. People had no idea what they were looking at. A computer screen, filled with a grid of numbers? As Keith Houston explains ...

Abstract: VisiCalc, an instantly updated spreadsheet software product, is often credited with being largely responsible for the widespread acceptance of personal computers in the early 1980s. VisiCalc ...