A History of Every GUI Ever

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Posted by Hemos on Tuesday March 23, 2004 @04:02AM from the walking-through-history dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I stumbled upon this site - GUIdebook, that offers a history of every GUI, from command prompts, to GEOS for the commodore 64, through Mac OSX. It's an interesting stroll down memory lane."

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Nice... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 04:03 · Score: 3, Funny

TOS was so kick ass... 15 years ago...
Scroll down memory lane by robolemon · 2004-03-23 04:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Or an interesting scroll down memory lane more like it!

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1. Re:Scroll down memory lane by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 06:11 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Since the site seems to be slashdotted, I thought I'd add an old favorite here (graphic modified to protect impressionable lameness filters):
  
  o o o o o o o o * o o o o o o o o o K o o o o o o * o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o E o o o o o o o o o o * o
  
  (My apologies if I haven't remembered this correctly, it's been a long time...)
  
  Ignore: more text to make the lameness filter happy. Nope, not enough. Well, here's some more. Didn't work. Curse you damned lameness filter. Don't you know a classic game when you see one? Ahhh, now I get it, you're not code you're a Klingon in a bad mood. A very bad mood. You know, there's never a photon torpedo around when you need one. I guess Klingons don't like anonymous cowards. Well, today is a good day for my post to die.
  
  You want more? Wow, that is one mean Klingon filter. 'Junk' characters? Bah! Abort my a__! Your mother wears army boots! You take that as a compliment? You would wouldn't you.
  
  Mr Sulu, lock photon torpedoes, as well as some log winded redundant phrases, I'll be damned if I'm going to be beaten by some cybernetic artificial Klingon son of a PTOCKSDHFSHD! Close to point blank range. Wait for it...FIRE! Damnit, missed. Full power to the forward shields! Damage report! Seal off decks 3 to 8! Evasion pattern delta and come around to 21 mark 4, full impulse. Lock on phasers and fire. Scotty, I need more power, shut down life support if you have to, this is serious. Mr. Checkov, throw some trash out the shuttle bay, it almost worked for the Romulans, maybe it will almost work for us.
  
  That does it, arm the corbomite device. Yes mister Spock, it is for real and we're going to use it. No, Klingons do not fear death and that is a subtle flaw in the logic of my plan. Yes, I'm obviously not captain Kirk, and yes he would find a way to get us out of this, just stop arguing with me an do what I say.
  
  BOOM!
slashdotted at one comment. by teamhasnoi · 2004-03-23 04:05 · Score: 4, Funny

I guess I'll be using the command line today.
1. Re:slashdotted at one comment. by drinkypoo · 2004-03-23 04:24 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "You had me at HTTP 1.1 GET"
  
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Good 'ole days by maximilln · 2004-03-23 04:06 · Score: 5, Funny

Finally, a /. article which doesn't immediately remind me of pyramid schemes, political graft, the extortion of the American people by their corporate executive overlords... (though all of these things combined contributed to the death of Commodore and the rise of the x86 architecture).

Crap. And the site is /.'ed.

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what? by WormholeFiend · 2004-03-23 04:06 · Score: 4, Funny

text interface counts as graphic interface?

as opposed to what... tactile interface?
1. Re:what? by mdielmann · 2004-03-23 05:07 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  If it's displayed on a screen, couldn't it technically be called "graphical"?
  
  So a hardcopy of Playboy isn't graphical? Let me guess, you read the articles...
  
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2. Re:what? by bigman2003 · 2004-03-23 05:17 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Wow...I had one of those cards too- but I guess I got the amber version...I just couldn't get mine to switch to green no matter what I did.
  
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In other news... by haxor.dk · 2004-03-23 04:07 · Score: 5, Funny

.... the internet backbone in European country Poland broke down today following a phenomenon known as "The slashdot effect". No people were harmed in the incident, but a lot of Slavic IT professionals were terribly inconvenienced.
...like a C64 game loading /snore by netglen · 2004-03-23 04:09 · Score: 2, Funny

Too bad the sight was /.'ed so fast. I really wanted to read it. But my browser is sitting there forver....like GI Joe loading up on my old C64.
Oh.. "GUI" by Mateito · 2004-03-23 04:10 · Score: 5, Funny

I prefer a Gooey

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GEOS- Oh the memories by Perrin7 · 2004-03-23 04:11 · Score: 3, Funny

On my old C128 (I was sure it was going to be the greatest thing when I sold my C64) I had GEOS and thought the graphical waste basket was neat ... until I dropped an essay in it and then panicked. That lead me to the discovery the the SECOND time you write and essay you get much better results. But GEOS was still my first encounter with a graphical operating environment.
1. Re:GEOS- Oh the memories by operagost · 2004-03-23 05:00 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  One night, I dropped my essay into the wastebasket, when all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and the whole essay just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good essay!
  
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Re:Correction? by dkh2 · 2004-03-23 04:14 · Score: 2, Funny

On top of that, it's not a walk down Memory Lane. It's a walk down GUI Lane.

A walk down Memory Lane would detail the history of [something]RAM and its precursors.

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Re:Hey -Editors! by geoffspear · 2004-03-23 04:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Hey, be quiet... you're going to ruin my best excuse for not having anything remotely interesting on my webpage!

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Missing option by Gothmolly · 2004-03-23 04:24 · Score: 4, Funny

I use punchcards you insensitive clod!

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Re:Slashdotted - Google cache too by joeware · 2004-03-23 04:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Holy smokes! Even the Google cache has been slashdotted!
Re:GUI is graphics, CHUI is text by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 04:44 · Score: 1, Funny

No, CHUI stands for "Big Hairy Wookee".
definition GUI by delphin42 · 2004-03-23 04:49 · Score: 1, Funny

A command prompt isn't graphical and therefore not a GUI. Sure it's a user interface, but not a graphical one. Maybe the book should have been named UIdebook.

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An older gui by EssenceLumin · 2004-03-23 05:17 · Score: 2, Funny

I don't see etcb-a-sketch in there.
Geos by Phanatik · 2004-03-23 05:59 · Score: 2, Funny

I loved Geos! Never had any problems like Win3.0 and 3.1 had.
Re:Great by AndroidCat · 2004-03-23 06:01 · Score: 2, Funny

Shows how much the Lisa sucked too. But the Mac still sucked until it got a larger screen and colour. Of course, Every OS Sucks! (needs QuickTime, which sucks too.)

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Re:The joys of proportionally spaced fonts by billimad · 2004-03-23 06:57 · Score: 2, Funny

I think you mean monospaced fonts, kind of like this!
Damn it! Now I feel pedantic...