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spearace

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04-20-2009

Yes, it's geeky but you may find this an interesting read. It covers all the major steps in graphical user interface design over the last 28 years of computing:

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009...een-1981-2009/

It even includes a brief mention of the PARC computer developed by Xerox. Just take a look at the screenshot, and you'll see it doesn't look much different to a DOS file manager from the 90's.

This is from 1973!

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