GUI Revolutions: From Flashing Bulbs To Windows 8
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."
This article doesn't scratch the surface, and looks more like an advertisement for Windows 7 and 8.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100101033213/http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html
There's history for ya.
Wayback Machine mirror so as to not nuke the poor guy's site.
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BMO
Our brain is well suited to work with visual clues, and computers soon learned to use that.
What will computers think up next?