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killer app
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The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a promising but
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under-utilized technology. First used in the mid-1980s to describe Lotus
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1-2-3 once it became evident that demand for that product had been the major
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driver of the early business market for IBM PCs. The term was then
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retrospectively applied to VisiCalc, which had played a similar role in the
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success of the Apple II. After 1994 it became commonplace to describe the
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World Wide Web as the Internet's .
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