@eddyknowscredit: A 1990 Microsoft Excel 3.0 commercial showed something simple turning into a “miracle” in the workplace. Two coworkers are racing against a deadline, stressed and overwhelmed, until Excel steps in and suddenly makes everything faster and easier through tools like AutoFill, drag-and-drop, AutoSum, and AutoFormat. What used to take hours of manual work becomes instant. Tables fill themselves, totals calculate automatically, and formatting turns a messy spreadsheet into a professional report in seconds. At the time, features like this felt revolutionary, especially in a market where competitors like Lotus 1-2-3 were still widely used. The message wasn’t just about software, it was about changing how people worked entirely. The ad helped position Excel as more than a tool. It became a symbol of efficiency, speed, and modern office productivity. Sometimes the biggest “miracle” is just better systems. Follow @eddyknowscredit for more. #microsoft #excel #business #productivity #techhistory
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Saturday 23 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT
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Elliott Jacobson :
This is the amount of work it took to have a cushy office job in 1990
2026-06-01 18:02:05
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mhm :
Impressive, very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's spreadsheet.
2026-06-01 11:47:15
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The Clubhouse :
My coworkers still react to Microsoft Excel like this.
2026-06-02 14:44:39
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Luxurious Minion Bathroom Girl :
That seems like an absurdly small amount of data, how much were these guys paid for work that would take 10 minutes max even with a pen and paper spreadsheet
2026-06-01 03:03:25
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jazzjwarren :
He tripping over 24 cells of information MAX lol
2026-06-02 04:05:32
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Odysseus :
“I have two Microsoft outlooks and neither of them are working”
2026-06-01 19:31:03
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George P :
these men were making 250k a year btw
2026-06-02 13:53:33
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Thisguy :
I don’t think his spread sheet does that
2026-05-31 22:49:31
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kgraves831 :
Ah back when some blue and gray backgrounds were “professionally designed.”
2026-06-02 04:17:13
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csfan7868 :
Guy took home enough for a big house, a summer house, a boat, 3 cars, all for copy and paste in the 90’s
2026-06-02 10:43:33
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Nati :
Behold, an elevator pitch.
2026-06-02 15:23:05
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jkballin :
This technology is insane, accountants will be out of a job by 2005.
2026-06-02 18:58:26
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Jay Fisher :
They professionally designed those formats so hard back then that they haven't been updated since
2026-06-03 03:19:21
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MudkipHunter1999 :
If they released excel today they would try to say that autofill worked using the power of AI
2026-06-02 10:50:01
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david.king :
office jobs in the 90's were the dream
2026-06-02 21:15:15
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user7111542267727 :
Just so you know people still react like this over a table in excel
2026-06-02 12:07:45
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Jdotmatrix :
I love how currency formatting hasn’t changed in 40 years
2026-06-02 21:54:23
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Kaiden :
Just use chat gpt bro
2026-06-01 10:06:33
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pinkmaskxx :
rent $500 for a swanky studio in Manhattan, making 70,000 a year, driving the coolest looking cars from the late 80s, you could program a website that’s basically “hello world” with a shopping cart and checkout function and make 10s of millions in the dotcom bubble 😭😭
2026-06-02 12:46:20
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no thanks I'll stick to lotus 123 instead of this new fad
2026-06-02 03:25:11
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seasonsax :
That’s really impressive. That was months of work done in one elevator ride
2026-06-01 04:41:37
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ParanoidNobody :
If I turned in anything that looked like that, I’d be fired on the spot.
2026-06-02 12:01:32
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Iits_clinee :
I think his spreadsheet doesn’t do that🙏🙏🥀🥀
2026-06-01 15:47:26
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Literally your neighbor :
A miracle? I could no joke freehand that in 30 seconds
2026-06-02 23:36:02
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