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The Future & History of the User Interface

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pointing-at-point-and-click dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mac Observer is taking a look at UI development with lots of video links to some of the latest developments in user interfaces. It also has links to some of the most interesting historical footage of UI developments, here's one of the 1968 NLS demo. From the article: 'Sadly, a great many people in the computer field have a pathetic sense (or rather ignorance) of history. They are pompous and narcissistic enough to ignore the great contributions of past geniuses... It might be time to add a mandatory "History of Computers" class to the computer science curriculum so as to give new practitioners this much needed sense of history.'"

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  1. I'm outraged! by Cr0w+T.+Trollbot · · Score: 5, Funny
    Where are the glorious UI innovation like Clippy and Microsoft Bob?

    Crow T. Trollbot

  2. Re:In other news... by celardore · · Score: 3, Funny

    Graphical User Interfaces are intuitive because you can remember the location of things.

    That's easy. It's at c:/>Files\Home\Photos\1997\Family\Snaps\*.jpg

    duh.

  3. Re:Two mice. by Hell+O'World · · Score: 3, Funny

    Most of that stuff can be done with two mice. Why hasn't anyone implemented that yet?
    Because all innovation in the computer industry comes from the field of pornography.