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GUIs From 1984 to the Present

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gooey-all-over-the-place dept.

alewar writes "This nice gallery shows the evolution in the appearance of Mac OS, Microsoft Windows and KDE through the years, from the first version to the last available. Not technical, but still interesting to recall some memories from the good old days."

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  1. They missed the most memorable by truckaxle · · Score: 3, Funny

    And just where is the blue screen of death

  2. microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The 'O' in the MS logo from 1985 kinda looks like a goatse..

  3. My desktop snapshot collection by digitalhermit · · Score: 5, Funny


    1994:

    > ls -a .profile

    1997:

    ~ ls -a .profile .sh_history

    1998:
    tardis ~ ls -a .profile .sh_history .bash_profile

    2001:
    [kll@apocalypse] ls -a .profile .sh_history .gnurc

    2004:
    [kll@helios] ssh apocalypse hostname
    apocalypse

    2006:
    [kll@xm-fc5-001] ssh localhost
    password:

    Virtual Machine - FC5 - Image 001
    Be nice!

  4. Re:Some corrections. by Indras · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the picture for Mac System 7 clearly says "7.5.3" in the screenshot (while 7.5 is supposed to be a couple pictures down).

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  5. Windows ME? by EnsilZah · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, no mention of Windows ME?
    It's almost as if someone doesn't want to acknowledge it ever existed.

  6. Apple copies Microsoft.... by GoulDuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    If these screenshots are corret, we now have proff that Apple copied Microsofts idea about using colors!

  7. Re:They missed the most memorable by TheNetAvenger · · Score: 5, Funny

    And just where is the blue screen of death


    They are all in the same gallery as the Kernel Panic screens, the Apple System Bomb Messages, and the OSX Spontaneous Restart Screenshots.

  8. BOB? by awesomo2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You managed to forget Microsoft's BOB. What's your secret?

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  9. Re:Sad state of GUI development by ucblockhead · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're so right! You want to know what else pisses me off? Cars. Cars still use the dated "Steering wheel/Accelerator/Brake" paradigm. Where's the originality!?

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  10. Re:Well then by miyako · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, actually he's under an NDA from Apple, which is why he couldn't post anything that described how Quartz actually works.

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