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A recent Planet Money episode did a brief history of the spreadsheet, using as its base a 1984 Harper’s article about A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge . 1 I think the podcast is a great intro to the history – VisiCalc, Dan Bricklin, people buying computers just to use it – and gives some sense of how important the spreadsheet was to the computer being accepted in every day life. The contrasts…
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