The Very First Version of Xcelsius?
It turns out that dashboards like Xcelsius have their roots all the way back in 1939 — in cardboard, at least! (Click on the image to get a bigger version)
Thanks to Modern Mechanix blog: “Yesterday’s Technology, Today!”


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This is an excellent find. We thought we were so cool for having interactive charts but noooo, granny was doing it decades ago.
Hi Timo,
Have you seen the Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS dashboards, circa 1984?
http://www.exceluser.com/dash/firstdash.htm
Gareth
Gareth,
Gosh! I DO remember now — I even built something similar using a mainframe reporting system when I worked at Shell in ’88! Thanks!
Hi Timo

What about the very first way of submitting a Google Search ?
http://data.boomerang.nl/b/boomerang/image/google-classic/s1024/3.jpg
Olivier on April 1st…