Ten Applications That Changed Computing

May 31, 2009 · Print This Article

bfire writes “The term ‘killer app’ gets tossed around quite liberally these days. Nearly every piece of software released seems to be pitched as having the potential to send shockwaves all through the IT world. In reality, there have been precious few applications which have truly changed the computing industry by the years. that scoop lists some of the top ten true killer apps that changed

computing, from Phil Zimmermann’s gold standard in encryption, PGP, to Dr Solomon’s groundbreaking anti-virus toolkit, to Mitch Kapor who took the concept of VisiCalc for Apple and created Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS.” Typical for top-10 lists, the choices seem pretty arbitrary — what changed your corner of the computing world?