{"id":16376,"date":"2023-01-26T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/lotus-1-2-3-goes-on-sale\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:57:33","slug":"lotus-1-2-3-goes-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/lotus-1-2-3-goes-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus 1-2-3 Goes on Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-582\" title=\"Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS\" alt=\"Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/8f585__Lotus-123-3.0-dos-300x225.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Lotus-123-3.0-dos-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Lotus-123-3.0-dos.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>January 26, 1983<\/p>\n<p>The Lotus Development Corporation releases <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lotus_1-2-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lotus 1-2-3<\/a> for IBM computers. While not the first spreadsheet program, Lotus was able to develop 1-2-3 because the creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VisiCalc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VisiCalc<\/a>, the first spreadsheet,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hubpages.com\/hub\/the_VisiCalc_spreadsheet_program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">did not patent their software<\/a>. 1-2-3 outsold VisiCalc by the end of the year and 2 years later Lotus bought out the assets of VisiCalc and hired its main creator as a consultant.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/26\/lotus-1-2-3-goes-on-sale\/\">Lotus 1-2-3 Goes on Sale<\/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\/26\/lotus-1-2-3-goes-on-sale\/\">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 26, 1983 The Lotus Development Corporation releases Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM computers. While not the first spreadsheet program, Lotus was able to develop 1-2-3 because the creators of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet,\u00a0did not patent their software. 1-2-3 outsold VisiCalc by the end of the year and 2 years later Lotus bought out the assets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[758,3728,1078],"class_list":["post-16376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-goes","tag-lotus","tag-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376"}],"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=16376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376\/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=16376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}