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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Re:dead already... by maximilln · 2004-03-23 04:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I know it's only your .sig but...

I've often wondered if present day Windows OS wasn't merely hacked together GPL code compiled with a custom compiler. The existence of etc/services and etc/protocols, the look and feel of the Windows windowmanager, some of the widgets, all have the feel of a frankenstein Linux. If that were true then perhaps the GPL is viral...

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Re:dead already... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 04:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Still, it's not as bad as this slashdotting. Five days now and counting.
Re:Kind of telling by baryon351 · 2004-03-23 04:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm a solid guihead most of the time, and I agree.

Except when it comes to my photoshopping. 99% mousing and 1% keyboarding :)
Re:Hey -Editors! by Politicus · 2004-03-23 04:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't even follow the main story links anymore, but look for a google cache post in the discussion section. Wouldn't it be easier to simply offer a google cache link in the story itself?
Would slashdot have the bandwidth to carry a cache of the pages they link to for at least the first 24hours that a story is out?

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DOS ./ style by Perl-Pusher · 2004-03-23 04:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I stumbled upon this site -
And figured I'd bring it down with a good old slashdot denial of service attack!
Re:slashdotted at one comment. by frodo+from+middle+ea · 2004-03-23 04:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

actually it is "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1"
Sigh , people these days just don't bother to read the RFCs.

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Seriously... by bonch · 2004-03-23 05:25 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Slashdot's not as fun as it used to be. Now it has an agenda to push, for "your rights online."

Used to just be an excellent place for tech news and fun articles like this. Now we have to sit through MP3 piracy justifications, DRM rants, anti-"M$" bullshit, GPL-dissertations (boooooring), etc.