{"id":150,"date":"2010-10-17T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/17\/happy-spreadsheet-day-2010\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:18:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:18:04","slug":"happy-spreadsheet-day-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/17\/happy-spreadsheet-day-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Spreadsheet Day 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s finally here &#8212; the occasion you&#8217;ve been waiting for all year &#8212; Spreadsheet Day! October 17th was voted the best day to celebrate spreadsheets, because October 17, 1979 was the release date of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet for personal computers.<\/p>\n<p>How will you celebrate? If you&#8217;re still looking for ideas, here are a few suggestions to get you started.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You could wear a dashing grid patterned shirt, like VisiCalc creators Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston. (Bob Frankston (standing) and Dan Bricklin, co-founders of Software Arts, Inc. Credit: \u00a9 www.jimraycroft.com 1982)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"bobdanvisicalc\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bobdanvisicalc.jpg\" alt=\"bobdanvisicalc\" width=\"389\" height=\"272\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Download a copy of VisiCalc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bricklin.com\/history\/vcexecutable.htm\">Download a copy of VisiCalc<\/a> from Dan Bricklin&#8217;s website, and transport yourself\u00a0 back to the good old days of spreadsheets, before the Excel Ribbon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"visicalcdownload\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/visicalcdownload.gif\" alt=\"visicalcdownload\" width=\"366\" height=\"188\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eat your dinner on a checkered tablecloth, or something with a lovely grid design, like Lady and the Tramp. You don&#8217;t have to push a meatball with your nose during dinner, but it might be fun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"gridtablecloth\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gridtablecloth.jpg\" alt=\"gridtablecloth\" width=\"358\" height=\"238\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re having steak, add A1 Steak Sauce on the side, as <a title=\"Toad suggested\" href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/comments\/Tomorrow_Is_Spreadsheet_Day\/#comments\">Toad suggested<\/a> in the J-Walk Blog comments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"a1sauce\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/a1sauce.jpg\" alt=\"a1sauce\" width=\"77\" height=\"230\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen to a <a title=\"spreadsheet song\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D15%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D24%26field-keywords%3Dspreadsheet%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Ddigital-music&amp;tag=contextures-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\">spreadsheet song<\/a> &#8212; funny thing though, they don&#8217;t seem like happy songs, based on the short preview clips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"spreadsheet songs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D15%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D24%26field-keywords%3Dspreadsheet%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Ddigital-music&amp;tag=contextures-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"spreadsheetssong\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/spreadsheetssong.jpg\" alt=\"spreadsheetssong\" width=\"228\" height=\"228\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Spreadsheet Day Parties &#8212; The Early Years<\/h3>\n<p>Even though 2010 is the first year with an official Spreadsheet Day, several of my parties in the early years had a spreadsheet theme.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at the right in the picture below, wearing a grid-patterned party dress, and enjoying three beverages at once. That&#8217;s good training for a life in spreadsheets!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/party01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"party01\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/party01_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"party01\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few years later, I convinced several of my friends to sport grid-patterned dresses, and we posed on the front lawn, in front of the grids that my dad had built to adorn the house. I&#8217;m at the right, in the back row, wearing glasses &#8212; the result of too much staring at grid paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/party02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"party02\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/party02_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"party02\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Happy Spreadsheet Day<\/h3>\n<p>If you have awesome (or semi-awesome) Spreadsheet Day plans, please let me know in the comments. And remember, have fun, save often and back up regularly!<\/p>\n<p>_________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here &#8212; the occasion you&#8217;ve been waiting for all year &#8212; Spreadsheet Day! 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