Posts tagged #history

Christopher Drum's Improv retrospective has people asking me about Lotus Improv again. It turns out I've been writing about it on this blog, on and off, since 2004. So here they all are in one place.

Where the idea came from. The newest post tells the oldest part of the story. In Lotus Improv Pre-History I describe reading a pile of "how to run your inventory in 1-2-3" books and noticing the same formula, copied by hand across groups of columns, over and over. Write it once and let the program apply it. I called that the semantic spreadsheet. Showing the same data with its dimensions flippe...

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cantino/mcfly: Fly through your shell history. Great Scott! Fly through your shell history. Great Scott! Contribute to cantino/mcfly development by creating an account on GitHub. January 4, 2022 at 02:50PM

Versions of Excel Explained [Updated 2021] » The Spreadsheet Page Did you know that Microsoft Excel’s first version was released almost 35 years ago, as of the date of writing this article? Initially, our beloved spreadsheet program was available exclusively for Macintosh, back in 1985, with a version developed for Microsoft following in 1987. During its life, Excel has undergone a number of different transformations to become the powerful spreadsheet software that we know and love today. Driven by our love for Microsoft Excel, October 18, 2021 at 04:54PM

The history of spreadsheets In this article, we briefly cover the history of spreadsheets starting with their origin, evolution, and the current scenario. October 18, 2021 at 04:55PM

An Introduction to Pivot Tables Using Excel 2000 An Introduction to Pivot Tables Using Excel 2000. What are Pivot Tables?. The Pivot Tables facility is a feature of Excel which is used for summarising data in a spreadsheet or database – e.g. by adding, averaging or counting without having to create formulae. October 18, 2021 at 04:54PM

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Not my usual topic, but I came across a rather interesting article about the history of the famous (infamous) AK-47 machine gun.

“The AK-47 has succeeded so wildly because it is almost an ideal realization of the personal firearm: where most weapons have had to contend with tradeoffs between accuracy, lethality, speed of fire, reliability, cost of production, and ease of carrying and use, the AK-47 managed to find a sweet spot maximizing these traits. In fact, the weapon is so reliable, effective, and easy to use by untrained operators that its advent made it widely possible for just about any group, even with little ...