History of the GUI

Ars Tecnica has a fascinating article covering the history of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), that part of the operating system that provides a large part of the user experience.  They cover the GUI from day one, which surprisingly was long before the computer was in place.  Most interesting tidbit (at least for me)- the GUI was first conceived in the 1930s.

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