Hard now to imagine but Lotus 1-2-3 changed the world and dominated the industry.<p>Lotus was on par with Microsoft, had the chance to be gigantic and somehow fumbled it when the world switched to Windows from text based DOS.<p>Lotus had some really innovative products like Lotus Notes ….. the first true nocode development environment.<p>Lotus also had Bill Gates as it’s competitor when Bill was at the top of his most ruthless business game.<p>Bill crushed them.