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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- Mapped: Where ChatGPT is Banned in 2025 (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- TechnologyRanked: The Most Popular Programming Languages (2014-2024) (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Ranked: Top 25 Universities Outside the U.S. (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8 (www.lexaloffle.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)
- Original VisiCalc on Apple II User's Guide [pdf] (www.bitsavers.org)
- 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)
- The$109T global stock market in one chart (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)
- How Much Does It Take to Be the Top% in Each U.S. State? (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)
- The Age of U.S. Senators, by 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)