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Seattle3503
11mo ago
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Interesting. I thought calling a program an "app" came with the smartphone era much later.
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acheron
11mo ago
People called things like Lotus 1-2-3 “killer apps” in the 1980s.
A reference from 1989:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CbsaONN5y1IC&pg=PP75#v=one...
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