{"id":195,"date":"2011-06-10T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/10\/visicalcs-dan-bricklin-at-apple-wwdc-2011\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:39:36","slug":"visicalcs-dan-bricklin-at-apple-wwdc-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/10\/visicalcs-dan-bricklin-at-apple-wwdc-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"VisiCalc&#8217;s Dan Bricklin at Apple WWDC 2011"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"apple\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/apple.png\" alt=\"apple\" width=\"55\" height=\"59\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/> The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (<a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/wwdc\/\">WWDC<\/a>) is running this week in San Francisco. On the WWDC website, you can only see the schedule if you log in, so I don\u2019t know how much time is devoted to spreadsheets at the conference. My guess \u2013 not much.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dan Bricklin, co-creator of <a title=\"VisiCalc\" href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/spreadsheet-history\/visicalc\/\">VisiCalc<\/a>, was at WWDC, and was interviewed by The Mac Observer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>DB<\/strong>: Yep. I wrote the original prototype in BASIC on the Apple II. And I also wrote a little bit of the actual code. Bob Frankston wrote the bulk of it back in 1979. That was indeed the first killer app for the PC world. The <em>personal computing<\/em> world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These days, Dan Bricklin is creating apps for the iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Apple would let us, but Apple doesn\u2019t like us to do things like that, we could probably build an [Intel] 8080 emulator for iOS and run the old IBM PC things like VisiCalc on the iPhone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dan Bricklin Interview Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/tmo_interviews_dan_bricklin_of_visicalc_fame_part_i\/\">Dan Bricklin Interview Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dan Bricklin Interview Part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/tmo_interviews_dan_bricklin_of_visicalc_fame_part_ii\/\">Dan Bricklin Interview Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>____________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/visicalc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-187\" src=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/visicalc.png\" alt=\"VisiCalc\" width=\"422\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/visicalc.png 422w, https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/visicalc-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/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>The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is running this week in San Francisco. On the WWDC website, you can only see the schedule if you log in, so I don\u2019t know how much time&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}