Brief History of Computer Spreadsheets

Historical - batch

Spreadsheet Computer Output, by Richard Mattessich, 1964

Input was data and FORTRAN program

Modern - interactive

Visicalc, by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, 1979

SC, original by James Gosling, 1982

Lotus 1-2-3, by Mitch Kapor, 1983

Excel for Macintosh, by Microsoft, 1985

Quattro Pro, by Borland, 1987

Oleo (1992) and Gnumeric, from the GNU Project, 1998

OpenOffice, from StarOffice and Sun, 2000