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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>killer app</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../K.html" title="K"/><link rel="previous" href="kill-file.html" title="kill file"/><link rel="next" href="killer-micro.html" title="killer micro"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">killer app</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="kill-file.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">K</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="killer-micro.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="killer-app"/><dt xmlns="" id="killer-app"><b>killer app</b></dt></dt><dd><p> The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a
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promising but under-utilized technology. First used in the mid-1980s to
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describe Lotus 1-2-3 once it became evident that demand for that product
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had been the major driver of the early business market for IBM PCs. The
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term was then retrospectively applied to VisiCalc, which had played a
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similar role in the success of the Apple II. After 1994 it became
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commonplace to describe the World Wide Web as the Internet's killer app.
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One of the standard questions asked about each new personal-computer
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technology as it emerges has become “<span class="quote">what's the killer
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