Hackernews posts about VisiCalc
VisiCalc is a pioneering electronic spreadsheet program developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston that revolutionized personal computing by allowing users to perform calculations and manage data on their home computers.
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- Europe's most dangerous cities according to citizens (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003) (benlo.com)
- Implementing VisiCalc [pdf] (rmf.vc)
- Interview with the Creators of VisiCalc (spillhistorie.no)
- Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc and APL (www.arraycast.com)
- Before Excel there was VisiCalc [video] (www.youtube.com)
- Letter to Arlington, MA Select Board on VisiCalc Commemoration (docs.google.com)
- Histomap: Visualizing the 4000 year history of global power (2021) (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- All the Major Tech Layoffs in 2024 So Far (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Charted: 50 Years of Music Industry Revenues, by Format (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Datacenter Processors for AI is already 78% of Nvidia's Revenue (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Charted: The Decline of U.S. Software Developer Jobs (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- A Record $6T in Cash on the Sidelines (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Mapped: The Migration of the Millionaires in 2023 (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- The State of the 7,168 Living Languages: 14% are dying (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- All the Metals We Mined in 2021: Visualized – Visual Capitalist (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- U.S. Debt Interest Payments Reach $1T (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Mapped: Millionaire Migration (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Which Countries Have the Most Industrial Robots? (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- The Rapid Decline of Global Birth Rates (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- The Median Down Payment for a House, by U.S. State (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Visualizing the 200-Year History of U.S. Interest Rates (2020) (advisor.visualcapitalist.com)
- Mapping Credit Card Delinquency Rates in the U.S. by State (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Ranked: Tax Havens (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Charted: The countries using most energy per capita (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Which AI Chatbots Collect the Most Data About You (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Comparing Weekly Work Hours and Salaries in OECD Countries (www.visualcapitalist.com)