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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. There were many. by bmo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

  2. 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?