2007-05-08 06:53:07 · 11 answers · asked by Zefram 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Think there can only be one answer as all the stuff you guys are talking about would never have even happened if this hadn't come first - soooo the killer app of all time has to be the first Graphical User Interface (GUI). Wikipedia lists an interesting path to GUI but for me the first that was actually used to any considerable extent were the early Mac OSs. Without the GUI we would not have had any of the apps we so rely on today and that includes photoshop, the modern web browser, the lot!!!
AJ
2007-05-08 07:44:55 · answer #1 · answered by AJ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have to understand that there are more business users than home and entertainment users. Large Fortune xxxx companies are the bread and butter of the PC busines. So that said the real killer application is the spread sheet which legitimized the computer in business. There were word processors long before the PC was invented and any good graphic artist could create presentations but spread sheets were the application that really took advantage of the PC's power. Prior to that accountants had to hand calculate spread sheets that were paper and pencil. The spread sheet allowed 'what if' kind of thinking without the drudgery of hand re-calculating. And later when they added advanced formula functions it became a scientists dream machine.
The first spread sheet was Visicalc and ran on Apple II in 1979 5 years before the PC.
I realize that this is before your 20 years but spread sheets are probably still the most used app for any PC or Mac.
2007-05-08 16:52:23 · answer #2 · answered by Wizard Of OS 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The web-browser.
I think Mosaic was the first to gain general use. Wikipedia cites it as the killer app of the 90's but even today internet access remains a predomant reason why poeple use and buy computers.
Web browsers revolutionised the internet, and it was only then that it gained the acceptance it has today. Windows 95 saw the webbrowser become part of the popular operating system of the day to the extent that it was even incorporated in the GUI.
And with the possible exception of email web-browsing would seem to be the mosty common use of the internet still today.
2007-05-08 14:04:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The World Wide Web itself.
2007-05-08 14:05:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello
I would say the following in their own rights
1. The Internet browser
2. Microsoft Word (Know once as notepad)
3. Mine sweep
Mine sweep is a legend of a game
All the best
Y!
2007-05-08 14:06:11 · answer #5 · answered by Chεεrs [uk] 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For me, I think it has been the first person shooter game or an application like paintshop pro.......
But really, it would be a simple disk operating system like msdos was!
2007-05-08 14:10:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Messengers - ICQ was the first. So ICQ
And of course the browser
2007-05-08 13:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by netsploit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The web browser.
oh, I see someone beat me to it.
2007-05-08 14:05:37 · answer #8 · answered by King of the Sofas 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Photoshop - hands down.
2007-05-08 13:55:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microsoft Bob. It killed itself.
2007-05-08 19:05:37 · answer #10 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋