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         <title>1978: Harvard Project</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><a href="http://www.bricklin.com/">Daniel Bricklin</a>, came up with the idea for an interactive visible calculator.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>1969: The beginning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Professor Richard Mattessich pioneered the development of computerized speadsheets</div>]]></description>
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         <title>1978 (Fall): First Prototype</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Bricklin had programmed the first working prototype of his concept in integer basic. T</div>]]></description>
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         <title>1980: Spreadsheets and Gates</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Many companies had introduced spreadsheet products. Bill Gates had joined the fray with the innovative Excel spreadsheet.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>1987: Big Trouble </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Lotus Development filed suit against Paperback Software and separately against Mosaic Software claiming they had infinged on the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software. </div>]]></description>
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         <title>1986: Entrepreneur Spirit </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Jim Manzi had become CEO at Lotus in April 1986 and in July 1986 Mitch Kapor resigned as Chairman. The spreadsheet entrepreneurs were moving on </div>]]></description>
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         <title>1995: IBM &amp; Lotus</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>IBM acquired Lotus Development and Microsoft Excel is the spreadsheet market leader.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>2003: The Legacy </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Dan Bricklin is working at Interland, Inc. Lotus gave him permission to post a working copy of the 1981 IBM PC version of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>1989: Microsoft Monopoly</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Excel was Microsoft's flagship product. For nearly 3 years.</div><div><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>1992: Competition Begins </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Excel receives competition from other spreadsheet products in the summer of 1992.</div>]]></description>
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