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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. Thank god for dupes by morgandelra · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean, I was thinking that maybe the /. editors actually read /. but have had my faith restored in thier ability to dupe a story withen days of its orginial posting. If we are lucky, it might get posted again next week!