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GUI Revolutions: From Flashing Bulbs To Windows 8

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the parc-your-mouse-right-here dept.

StormDriver writes "GUI has been with us for years and it went a long, long way since the early days. There were some fairly interesting developments along the way, so we took the time to line them up for you."

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  1. Poorly written by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our brain is well suited to work with visual clues, and computers soon learned to use that.

    What will computers think up next?

  2. What does the future hold? by sakdoctor · · Score: 3, Funny

    In future, all screens will be touchscreen, even your main PC monitor. The major breakthrough was the self-lubricating touchscreen. It's naturally oily, and hypo-allergenic, requiring no cleaning.

    Of course, the mouse driven paradigm needed to be scrapped completely, in favour of a adult finger-painting gesture system. Mod someone down on slashdot? There's a gesture for that. There's an intuitive gesture for absolutely everything. Just install the gesture localization pack.

    True, I can't find any of my LOCAL applications any more, but that's fine because I can just google for them, and they'll turn up some place.
    It's going to be a good future.