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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: How Much of Each U.S. State's Population Lives in Cities (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8 (www.lexaloffle.com)
- VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003) (benlo.com)
- The History of VisiCalc (1999-2018) (www.bricklin.com)
- Implementing VisiCalc (2003) (rmf.vc)
- Show HN: VisiCalc 2023 (docs.google.com)
- Original VisiCalc on Apple II User's Guide [pdf] (www.bitsavers.org)
- Taking a Look at VisiCalc – The First Ever Spreadsheet Program (www.youtube.com)
- Implementing VisiCalc (2003) (www.landley.net)
- Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 – 2022 (Visiualization) (www.youtube.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)
- The Average Home Size in Every U.S. State (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 World’s Plummeting Fertility Rate (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- The State of the 7,168 Living Languages: 14% are dying (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- How Americans Spend Their Money, by Generation (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)
- Mapping the World’s River Basins by Continent (www.visualcapitalist.com)