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If you’re as old as dirt, you’ll find this fascinating
As a certified ancient journo who watched the original Windows – OS/2 – Excel – 1-2-3 fight, I found this Twitter thread to be most enlightening:
Mitch Kapor: "The spreadsheet [on a PC] was an incredibly brilliant invention by Dan Bricklin, not by me. But we fundamentally improved the spreadsheet in multiple ways simultaneously. So we weren’t a first mover [with Lotus 123], we were a fast follower." https://t.co/A2Mwq8CbqV
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) November 17, 2018
He went like one that hath been stunned,And is of sense forlorn:A sadder and a wiser man,He rose the morrow morn.https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834