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by akavel 67 days ago
Lol, young padawan, check up those weird old programs that were called "VisiCalc" and "Lotus 1-2-3".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3
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nomel 67 days ago
Which were before GUI of any complexity were possible. There was no alternative at the time.

Related, see the insane success and excitement from the early GUI based operating systems.

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