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The Real History of the GUI

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pretty-amusing-take-on-things dept.

Big Nothing writes "Mike Tuck @ webmasterbase.com has written a piece on the development of GUIs. Like most other articles on webmasterbase.com it is fairly non-technical, but entertaining nonetheless." Update: 08/21 02:45 AM GMT by T : Note that the link above takes you to the print-friendly version of the story; for online reading, you might prefer this version instead.

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  1. Snore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That article was very long and boring. Please post a summary. My time is too valuable for such a lengthy article.

  2. What should I do? by stikves · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It seems like nobody has sned comments to this article, yet.


    Should I read the article or send a first-post? I am not sure?


    I should read the article first, then send a post.


    No! I cannot resist. Anyway...

  3. GOATSE.CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Be warned, and moderate this down!

    1. Re:GOATSE.CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      WARNTING TOTALLY GAY GOATSECX LINK IN PARENT COMNENT #2198839 GAH! GAY! GAY! STUPID M0RNoN1!!!!

      fuCKING LAMEness filter please tdont use so many caops using caps is like yelling gdammit fuck that shi. I hate the lameness filter. It is auto-censorship

    2. Re:GOATSE.CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      how the heck did they do that? Taco, patch this up quick!

    3. Re:GOATSE.CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Turing was a homo.

    4. Re:GOATSE.CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      haha, slash 2.2 is 0wn3d...

      this wouldn't happen if they used a real programming language, like C#, or even VB.NET.

  4. GUI? by Tuxinatorium · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is GUI!

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  5. Re:Prost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I kinda like the "global" message number. You can't tell who has the first post without really looking into it. Now FP's will go away... now that base URLs are shown on links, goatse.cx links will go away....

    I'm looking forward to seeing what the next evolution of trolls will bring us!

  6. Things that make you go hmmm... by _Stryker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For a second there I thought it said "Mike Tuck @ webmasturbate.com". Of course, if that were the case I guess the title would have been "The Real History of the Gooey".

  7. worse than goatsex!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    gross!

    you sick, sick little man!

  8. The GUI!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That is when the whole industry when to hell, with the advent of the GUI. To hell, I say!!

  9. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Taco? Patch? Quick?

    You haven't been around Slashdot for long, have you? Taco is a fourth-rate programmer who couldn't write "Hello World" on a piece of paper, much less in a high level programming language.

    It'll take him a week to figure out what's wrong, and another year to hack together a patch.

  10. bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GUI's are for stupid little panzies.

  11. Re:pfffttt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how about... goats?!

  12. Yeah, what they said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Several have said it before, but this shi-at sucked. I had more fun reading the first post trolls than this article.

  13. Re:I liked... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    u r0x0r.

    got goat?

  14. 404! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dipshit

  15. Someone had to.... by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    all your webmasterbase.com are belong to us?

  16. Holey Crap! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Annonymous Coward r0x0r the casbah! look at that karma!!!

    Now if we/I can figure out how to get their goat

  17. Obligatory slashdotted post by Microsift · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your webmasterbase.com are belong to us!

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  18. Re:I liked... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How the fuck did you do that?

  19. test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    test click here [cnn.com]

  20. Figure it out, moron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just look at some of the other posts in his history. Notice a pattern? Now put 2 and 2 together, and there you fucking go.

  21. Re:Prost? by crazyprogrammer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There will always be first posts on slashdot, unless nobody posts a comment.

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