The first real low-code solution was a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets were what drove businesses to buy PCs in the early 80s.
In the 90s, CASE (computer-automated software engineering) was a big thing. Powerbuilder was huge. Novell had one where you could draw a flowchart and fill in dialogs to make client-server apps... UI builders became common as language vendors added graphical IDEs to their game.
In the 00's we had a lot of visual development tools for websites. Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc...
In the 10's we had Zapier, IFTT and Yahoo's pipes.
Lots of successful products and fortunes made with No Code and low code.
In the 90s, CASE (computer-automated software engineering) was a big thing. Powerbuilder was huge. Novell had one where you could draw a flowchart and fill in dialogs to make client-server apps... UI builders became common as language vendors added graphical IDEs to their game.
In the 00's we had a lot of visual development tools for websites. Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc...
In the 10's we had Zapier, IFTT and Yahoo's pipes.
Lots of successful products and fortunes made with No Code and low code.