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Excel 2.0

Excel in my opinion is the most successful software application in history. The spreadsheet is the most powerful computing interface. The predecessor’s name might explain why it has been so successful: VisiCalc, short for “Visual Calculator”, everyone’s (almost) infinitely extensible visual calculation program interface. The list of applications

Version Control Everything

Version Control systems are the product of what I believe is a continued abstraction of a computer program and it’s user defined configurations. First we had physical backups of entire computers on hard drives, then time-machine type backups and Veeam backups for VMs. Now we have both application specific

Newly Accessible Information

Everyone knows or can conceptually think through how Google and Facebook built massive businesses around making a previously inaccessible set of information accessible through software. Google indexed the internet, and Facebook indexed your interests, likes, and friends etc.Salesforce indexed sales and customer relationship data.Dropbox indexed your files and