{"id":15823,"date":"2023-01-02T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/software-arts-incorporated-2\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T14:57:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T14:57:21","slug":"software-arts-incorporated-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/software-arts-incorporated-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Arts Incorporated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dan-bricklin-bob-frankston.jpeg\"  rel=\"lightbox[4296] attachment wp-att-4297\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/43638__dan-bricklin-bob-frankston-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"dan bricklin bob frankston\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dan-bricklin-bob-frankston-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/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&#8217;s first spreadsheet software, incorporate Software Arts to be the parent company for their product, <a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/05\/11\/visicalc-unveiled\/\">VisiCalc<\/a>. VisiCalc was introduced and then\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/10\/19\/visicalc-officially-released\/\">shipped later in the year<\/a> and became the first &#8220;killer app&#8221; 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<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/02\/software-arts-incorporated\/\">Software Arts Incorporated<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/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&#8217;s 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 &#8220;killer app&#8221; for the personal computer.\u00a0By offering such a powerful business tool that anyone could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15824,"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-15823","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\/15823"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15823\/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=15823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}