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The Majestic Birth of Graphical User Interfaces – Xerox Alto and the Alto Trek game (blisscast.wordpress.com)

submitted 9 months ago by blisscast@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Can you imagine a time before the Graphical User Interface, when you could only operate a computer with abstract-looking text instead of using simple menus, and it was unheard of to use the oh-so-common mouse? A time when computers were harder to learn, and even harder to master? Well then, join us on our splendid trip where we’ll discover one of the very first GUIs in a personal computer, found on the Xerox Alto!

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[–] amio@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

I can virtually guarantee a lot of people here not only can imagine it, but use CLI applications heavily every day.