{"id":14054,"date":"2016-01-02T23:20:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T23:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/software-arts-incorporated\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T23:20:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T23:20:38","slug":"software-arts-incorporated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/software-arts-incorporated\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Arts Incorporated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2Fdan-bricklin-bob-frankston.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[4296] attachment wp-att-4297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/477ec__dan-bricklin-bob-frankston-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"dan bricklin bob frankston\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/477ec__dan-bricklin-bob-frankston-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dan-bricklin-bob-frankston.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>January 2, 1979<\/p>\n<p>Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, developers of the world\u2019s first spreadsheet software, incorporate Software Arts to be the parent company for their product, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F05%2F11%2Fvisicalc-unveiled%2F\">VisiCalc<\/a>. VisiCalc was introduced and then\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F10%2F19%2Fvisicalc-officially-released%2F\">shipped later in the year<\/a> and became the first \u201ckiller app\u201d for the personal computer.\u00a0By offering such a powerful business tool that anyone could run on their own computer, Bricklin and Frankston\u00a0are credited with changing the perception of the personal computer from hobby into a business machine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/477ec__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/02\/software-arts-incorporated\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2, 1979 Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, developers of the world\u2019s first spreadsheet software, incorporate Software Arts to be the parent company for their product, VisiCalc. VisiCalc was introduced and then\u00a0shipped later in the year and became the first \u201ckiller app\u201d for the personal computer.\u00a0By offering such a powerful business tool that anyone could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4202,1678,4126],"class_list":["post-14054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-arts","tag-incorporated","tag-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}