That was a nice little tour around the origins of dashboarding by spreadsheet (regardless of whether it was really the first!)

It’s interesting that until Microcharts came along in 2006, in all reality, excel was not much more advanced for small scale charting.

But, of course, the definitive statement “I’m sure that my Lotus mini-graph reports were the first dashboard reports ever created for spreadsheets” might be a bit of a stretch

There were a lot of very clever people trying to get the most out of their PCs & Spreadhseets back-in-the-day, and I’d bet there were some other early spreadsheet “dashboards” (using either Lotus 123, or maybe even Visicalc). And companies were probably even more “secretive” about them back then, than they are now, so it’s possible that lots of things like this existed, but nobody except the very few people using them ever got to see them.