Excel started development thousands of years ago (www.datafix.com.au)

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In actuality, this is fascinating! A spreadsheet from a time when dates were referenced by the conclusions of major events. Wonder if someone got back paid for their ancestors' work developing excel though 😉

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[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

More than likely it’s because once you start to need to keep track of many things and what their calculations are you need a way to organize them. This is the outcome. Pretty cool.

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Damn, that's interesting!

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