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A Non-Dogmatic History of the GUI

Posted by timothy on from the catmatic-is-better-anyhow dept.

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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  1. "launch programs by clicking on icons," by The+Cisco+Kid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I prefer to run programs from a CLI in a shell window. The only GUI application I use regularly is mozilla (started from a shell); pretty much everything I do, I do from a shell. Rather than trying to manage an entire seperate interface (or using someone else's idea of what a default should be) it seems to much simpler to do it this way.

    The CLI is power, the CLI is control. If you are unable to function with a CLI, you are giving up quite a bit of both.