The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint

A computer program is an organized list of instructions that, when executed, causes the computer to behave in a predetermined manner. Without programs, computers are useless.

A program is like a recipe. It contains a list of ingredients (called variables) and a list of directions (called statements) that tell the computer what to do with the variables. The variables can represent numeric data, text, or graphical images.

Love it or hate it, PowerPoint is one of those programs. If you have worked in an office in the Western world in the past 25 years, you will probably have sat through a PowerPoint presentation. But where did it come from?

This week, a look at the improbable origins of PowerPoint.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers (US humorist and showman, 1879 - 1935)

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