Comments on: Busting down the barriers http://www.jarche.com/2008/04/busting-down-the-barriers/ Life in Perpetual Beta Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon Husband http://www.jarche.com/2008/04/busting-down-the-barriers/comment-page-1/#comment-179235 Jon Husband Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:52:00 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1536#comment-179235 cool .... zoom-zoom ! cool …. zoom-zoom !

]]> By: Dave Ferguson http://www.jarche.com/2008/04/busting-down-the-barriers/comment-page-1/#comment-178803 Dave Ferguson Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:29:47 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1536#comment-178803 I think the "don't live online" is key. All kinds of engineers and techno-geeks were having fun putzing around with computers in their garages -- then Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created <i>VisiCalc.</i> This was the first spreadsheet for the personal computer, and became the first computer-based tool that made sense to (and achieved results for) folks who didn't care about computers. I think the “don’t live online” is key. All kinds of engineers and techno-geeks were having fun putzing around with computers in their garages — then Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created VisiCalc.

This was the first spreadsheet for the personal computer, and became the first computer-based tool that made sense to (and achieved results for) folks who didn’t care about computers.

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