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:what? by Dreadlord · 2004-03-23 04:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

You are right, it should be a list of user interfaces, not only graphical ones.

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Re:Good 'ole days by jellomizer · 2004-03-23 04:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

Well thats always the case.
Whenenver there is a cool PC Mod or a Scrool down memory lane or something technically cool it will get slasheddotted.
Partilly because these are usually on non comerical grade webservers and a bigger population of slashdotters find it interesting.

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Oximorons.... by DR+SoB · 2004-03-23 04:21 · Score: 0, Redundant

"Command Line GUI" huh? Isn't that just a "UI", seeing as it's not Graphical? Or is it graphical as compared to say, punch cards??

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GUI=!UI by Chess_the_cat · 2004-03-23 04:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

I stumbled upon this site - GUIdebook, that offers a history of every GUI, from command prompts...
A command prompt isn't a graphical user interface. Come on.

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Re:what? by Myen · 2004-03-23 05:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

Ummm...
I'm pretty sure it depended on the CRT used - plug into a green monitor, you get green text. Plug into a colour monitor (*), you get actual white text.

(*) Some old colour monitors had cables / sockets that would let you plug into monochrome video cards - I had one of those.