The document discusses the history of spreadsheets and highlights their evolution over time. It references various spreadsheet functionalities and examples, illustrating how they facilitate calculations and data organization. The author uses specific examples and images to detail the development of spreadsheet software features.

1. A Brief History of
Spreadsheets
Jim Hall

2. Jim Hall
jhall@freedos.org
The FreeDOS Project
www.freedos.org

3. Why does LibreOffice
look and act that way?

7. Because history!
First, the Earth cooled …

8. Expenses
4/4 Tue 4/5 Wed Total
Hotel
Breakfast
1 2 5 00 1 2 5 00
Lunch
Dinner
Total
5 98 4 65
6 5 78
1 2 3 77
3 2 0 53
5 6 44
1 8 1 39
3 6 7 48
2 5 0 00
1 0 63
1 2 2 22
3 0 5 16
6 8 8 01
Expenses
4/6/89
image: Adams® analysis pad #ACP85116

9. image: Rene Pardo

10. col 1 col 2 col 3
line 1 101 102 103
line 2 201 202 203
line 3 301 302 303
up to 99 columns, 999 lines
LANPAR

11. revenue units sold unit price
quarter 1 102 * 103; INPUT; K.50;
quarter 2 202 * 203; INPUT; K1.00;
total 101 + 201;
boxes are constants (“K”), inputs, calculations, or empty
LANPAR

12. LANPAR

13. A wild VisiCalc
appears
pexels (cc0)

19. WinWorld