{"id":494,"date":"2016-10-17T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:19:03","slug":"happy-spreadsheet-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/17\/happy-spreadsheet-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Spreadsheet Day 2016"},"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>Happy Spreadsheet Day 2016, and thanks for visiting this website today.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I started <a title=\"Spreadsheet Day in 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spreadsheet Day in 2010<\/a>, and after a vote, we chose October 17th as the date for the annual celebration. That\u2019s the date on which VisiCalc was first released, way back in 1979.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spreadsheetday2016b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"spreadsheetday2016b\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spreadsheetday2016b_thumb.png\" alt=\"spreadsheetday2016b\" width=\"451\" height=\"227\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Spreadsheet Hall of Fame Voting<\/h3>\n<p>Last year, we <a title=\"voted for the spreadsheet programs\" href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/spreadsheet-hall-of-fame-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted for the spreadsheet programs<\/a> that should be inducted into the virtual Spreadsheet Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>You could vote for your first, second and third choices, and the votes were scored.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choice 1 = 3 points<\/li>\n<li>Choice 2 = 2 points<\/li>\n<li>Choice 3 = 3 points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Spreadsheet Hall of Fame 2016<\/h3>\n<p>Based on the points awarded for the votes, the top 3 programs, and first to be inducted into the Spreadsheet Hall of Fame are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Microsoft Excel<\/li>\n<li>Lotus 1-2-3<\/li>\n<li>VisiCalc<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Learn more about the history of these 3 programs, in the videos on the\u00a0 <a title=\"the Spreadsheet Hall of Fame\" href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/spreadsheet-history\/spreadsheet-hall-of-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Spreadsheet Hall of Fame<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h3>Back to Celebrating<\/h3>\n<p>Remember to tell your friends and family that it\u2019s Spreadsheet Day today, and now get back to your celebrations!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spreadsheetday2016a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Happy Spreadsheet Day 2016 http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spreadsheetday2016a_thumb.png\" alt=\"Happy Spreadsheet Day 2016 http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/\" width=\"451\" height=\"451\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/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>Happy Spreadsheet Day 2016, and thanks for visiting this website today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","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\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}