History of GUI Development

Apr 12, 08:19 AM

I’m probably the only one but I find this site fascinating:

Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.

I’m current reading Insanely Great by the always excellent Steven Levy; this book is about the history of the Macintosh computer, “the computer that changed everything.” What I’d totally forgotten about the Mac was how revolutionary the user interface was—there was nothing like it at the time. Now, this kind of interface is taken for granted but it’s amazing to compare the original Mac UI with modern UIs and see how similar they are. Mac/OS was first released around 1985; we haven’t actually come that far in 20 years.

(site found through digg)

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