GUIs From 1984 to the Present

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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My desktop snapshot collection

[digitalhermit]

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!

Re:They missed the most memorable

[TheNetAvenger]

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.

BOB?

[awesomo2001]

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

Re:Well then

[miyako]

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