Those old enough to remember the command line interfaces of yesteryear are only too aware of what a godsend the Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) of today are. However, the human computer interface (HCI ...

This article originally appeared on the blog of author Ken Shirriff and is reprinted here with his permission. Alan Kay recently gave his 1970s Xerox Alto to Y Combinator, and I’m helping with the ...

1983: Apple releases the Lisa, the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) — the advance that would finally make computers usable by people with no special training. It doesn't ...

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Apple Lisa computer, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has released the source code for the first graphical user interface computer. The CHM has gained Apple's ...

It displays intuitive operation by displaying graphics on the screen and operating with the mouseGraphical user interfaceWith the realization of the GUI (GUI), it is said that until then the computers ...

Those of us who have lived through the steady democratization of computers… recall that the sharpest turning point came in 1984. That’s when Apple introduced an affordable personal computer with a ...