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."

Comments

What? No Amiga GUIs?

[rubberbando]

It would have been nice to see some pics of the Amiga GUIs, year by year to show how much nicer they were at the time compared to Apple's and Microsoft's.

GNome, Window Maker and other leaders.

[twitter]

All should show up pre 1999. They look just as good as Windows 98 did and were widely deployed and easy to get. They might also have included a screen shot of TWM to show how things progressed.

• TWM, 1987
• FVWM, 1993 (Enlightenment puts it at 1992)
• Next Step publishes Open Step which is quickly followed by
• AfterStep, Window Maker and others much nicer than Windows 95. Most are still available and usable with the latest and greatest free software.
• Enlightenment, released 1996, still a leader.
• Gnome used Enlightenment until they moved to Sawfish. The history has just begun

Of course, everyone should see the first web browser from 1990 (actually a screen shot from 1993, but much the same) running on a Next.

It might be hard to dig up screenshots all of desktops, but not much harder than the ones they found. It's nice to see someone including KDE in the line up so people can see a little of what they have been missing, like Virtual desktops, since the early 90's.