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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- The cost to retire comfortably around the world (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- How the World Views China vs. the U.S. in 2026 (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Which Countries Think They're on the Right Track? (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Ranked: Where the iPhone Costs the Most in 2026 (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Ranked: Popular Cities for Digital Nomads (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- VisiCalc Reconstructed (zserge.com)
- VisiCalc on the Apple II (stonetools.ghost.io)
- Implementing VisiCalc [pdf] (rmf.vc)
- Interview with the Creators of VisiCalc (spillhistorie.no)
- Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc and APL (www.arraycast.com)
- A Memoir of Spreadsheets: From VisiCalc to Google Sheets (blog.venturemagazine.net)
- VisiCalc: The First 'Killer App' (www.spacebar.news)
- Before Excel there was VisiCalc [video] (www.youtube.com)
- VisiCalc (en.wikipedia.org)
- Letter to Arlington, MA Select Board on VisiCalc Commemoration (docs.google.com)
- America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Charted: The Decline of U.S. Software Developer Jobs (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Searching for Birds (searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com)
- Which Countries Have the Most Industrial Robots? (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- How America's Wealth Distribution Has Changed Since 1989 (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Ranked: Tax Havens (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Ranked: Countries Spending the Most on Research and Development (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Europe's most dangerous cities according to citizens (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Which AI Chatbots Collect the Most Data About You (www.visualcapitalist.com)
- Searching for Birds: Concept, analysis, design, and development (searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com)
- The most influential values in 1 Graphic (www.visualcapitalist.com)