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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
promising but under-utilized technology. First used in the mid-1980s to
describe Lotus 1-2-3 once it became evident that demand for that product
had been the major driver of the early business market for IBM PCs. The
term was then retrospectively applied to VisiCalc, which had played a
similar role in the success of the Apple II. After 1994 it became
commonplace to describe the World Wide Web as the Internet's killer app.
One of the standard questions asked about each new personal-computer
technology as it emerges has become &#8220;<span class="quote">what's the killer
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