History of GUIs

[Jamesy]

Xerox Star -1981 (Screenshot from Star's successor: ViewPoint)
First commercial computer featuring WIMP GUI. (Commercial failure)
See The Xerox "Star": A Retrospective





Apple Lisa - 1983
Commercially unsuccessful.
Possible name origins:
- Steve Job's first daughter, born in 1978, was named Lisa.
- Local Integrated Software Architecture
- Lisa: Invented Stupid Acronym

Apple Lisa



Apple MacIntosh - 1984
First commercially successful computer to popularize GUIs.
Watch the commercial which was played only once on TV during the '84 Super Bowl and the Hillary Clinton spoof.

Mac

http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/gui/mac.gif

Windows 1 - 1985



Windows 2 - 1987




Windows 3.1 - 1992




Windows 95 - 1995




Windows 98 - 1998




UNIX mwm Window Manager - 1998



OS/2 Warp - 1998



Apple iMac - 1999



K Desktop Environment (KDE) - 1999 (for UNIX)



Windows XP - 2001



Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) - 2001



Windows Vista - 2006



Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) - 2007




very brief I know.

original site.

[carrick]

pointless thread

Edited by jesus (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not post pointlessly.

[Jamesy]

pointless thread

how? It's informative. It's about technology and to someone who has never seen anything about early computing it can be interesting reflecting on how far we have come along.

the only thing that's pointless here is your reply. If you don't like it why reply?

[carrick]

im sorry i only read the first 3 words

[jesus]

Excellent +rep.

[Robbie]

Wow, funny how much it's changed.

[Technologic]

I say we go back to windows 3.1

[Jamesy]

nah 2 ftw. Such pretty colours :rolleyes:

[Technologic]

nah 2 ftw. Such pretty colours :rolleyes:

8-bit colours ftw

[jesus]

I wonder if there's any way of downloading and running one of them?