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RcouF1uZ4gsC on April 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What software technology had impact like C...

Spreadsheets.

They were the killer application for personal computers.

Whether you were running a Fortune 500 company or a local club or just your own household, updating a single number in a column and immediately seeing the result reflected across all your calculations in a visual way was amazing.

whateveracct on April 17, 2023 | [–]

Spreadsheets are still more impactful and useful than ChatGPT.

zxcvbn4038 on April 17, 2023 | [–]

This is dead on - they are so commonplace today they are taken for granted but they were game changing when they first appeared.

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