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Ten Applications That Changed Computing (itnews.com.au)
3 points by nickb 6221 days ago
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VisiCalc didn't even make the list, though it got mentioned under Lotus 1-2-3. Oh, so very wrong. VisiCalc was the program that turned personal computers from a small hobbyist market into something the business world needed. With the possible exception of Mosaic, it is the most important personal computer program ever written.