Got home last night and found this. Thank you! Derek Snook @Schwieb Microsoft Excel Harry McCracken

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1/ One of the best ways to teach someone about business is to tell a story. One such story is how a prior business experience contributed to the success of Microsoft. Traf-O-Data was created in 1972 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to convert road volume data and into reports.

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#OnThisDay in 1958, Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit. 'What we didn't realize then was that the integrated circuit would reduce the cost of electronic functions by a factor of a million to one, nothing had ever done that for anything before' computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-bin/sitewi…

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Forty years ago Visicalc, the first commercial spreadsheet for widespread use was shipped and sold. The original Killer App. Happy #SpreadsheetDay Dan Bricklin Bob Frankston

50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420 fastcompany.com/90423457/50-ye…

"It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it."

MEGATHREAD TIME: In 40 tweets I will describe 40 powerful concepts for understanding the world. Some are complex so forgive me for oversimplifying, but the main purpose is to incite curiosity. Okay, here we go:

#OnThisDay in 1975, a notice was posted in Palo Alto High School that a computer club would be held at the home of Gordon French. This was to be the first meeting of "homebrew club" that included Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as members. computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-bin/sitewi…

Happy 35th birthday Microsoft Excel #OTD 1985 Microsoft Excel v1.00 was released

Happy birthday Microsoft Excel - How does it feel to turn 36? Brian Jones Derek Snook

Happy #SpreadsheetDay Check out spreadsheethistory.com (WIP)

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#OnThisDay in 1946, the much-anticipated ENIAC was unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania. The ENIAC calculated 5000 operations per second, and occupied over 1500 square feet of space, weighed 30 tons, and used 18,000 vacuum tubes! computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-bin/sitewi…

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Intel was founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce on July 18, 1968 in Mountain View, CA. This is their entire one page business plan. computerhistory.org/wp-content/upl…