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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. I liked... by Wind_Walker · · Score: 0, Troll
    In the article, there was a discussion between two "cave-men" trying to discuss the basic processes of booting up a system, including the infamous "C:" being misinterpreted as "see prompt". That struck home for all of those in tech support, trying to guide undereducated computer users through the confusing world of computers using only the English language

    There's a good collection of these kinds of things at Computer Stupidities on rinkworks.com.