A Corporate Environment

I’m working in a corporate environment since a while back. You know it; white shirts, bad coffee, dubious jokes by the water cooler and lunchtime conversations about cars, sport, dogs and mortgages. Sometimes I think I live in the 50’s when I’m in the office. But they didn’t have computers then, did they?

I check what Excel version my computer has got in the Help menu; Microsoft® Office Excel® 1957. © 1764-1957 by Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.”

I consult Wikipedia and find that Microsoft Excel was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, near Blackburn. Hargreaves invented the “Spinning Jenny” shortly before Excel. The multi-spool spinning wheel, which revolutionized the way we work.

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  1. On March 10, 2008 at 1:34 pm johan Said:

    The challenge would be to spinn the spool another revelation, and invent a smarter spreedsheet tool…


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