A Non-Dogmatic History of the GUI

Zoxed writes "Jeremy Reimer provides an 8-page history of GUIs from the early 1930s to the present day. For example, from the conclusion: 'the truth of the story is that the GUI was developed by many different people over a long period of time. Saying that "Apple invented the GUI" or "Apple ripped off the idea from PARC" is overly simplistic, but saying that "Xerox invented the GUI" is equally so.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Dogs

[Primal_theory]

I didn't see any dogs this time, they did a good job!

Google DNS?

[caluml]

Anyone having problems resolving Google? It's down for me.

bash-2.05b$ dig www.google.co.uk

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> www.google.co.uk
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 58697
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.co.uk. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.co.uk. 306348 IN CNAME www.google.com.
www.google.com. 298 IN CNAME www.l.google.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
l.google.com. 599 IN SOA ns1.google.com.l.google.com. dns-admin.google.com. 1115309515 900 900 1800 900

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: w.x.y.z#53(w.x.y.z)
;; WHEN: Sat May 7 23:50:18 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 143

bash-2.05b$

It's the same from work too - so it's not my DNS config. I think someone has typed something wrong at Google.

Re:Google DNS?

[flowerp]

Its down for me too. Funny, I just noticed 2 minutes ago, then I came across this post.

Re:Google DNS?

[spitzak]

Broken here, too: unknown host www.google.com

However just "google.com" does resolve (to 216.239.39.99 for me). But trying to load that seems to just redirect to www.google.com so it fails.

It's a sign of the apocalypse!

Re:Google DNS?

[caluml]

Thanks for the "Offtopic", mods. Nice one.
If it's working for you, it might be that your records are still cached?

GOOGLE DOWN?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone having problems connecting to http://google.com?

Re:WOW, MY 2ND FP IN ONE DAY!

[/dev/trash]

I've gotten laid at least once in the past 7 years.

Re:I sense a great disturbance in the 'net...

[Anyletter]

down for me, too. But GWA seems to be working still. A great disturbance, to be sure.