The Majestic Birth of Graphical User Interfaces – Xerox Alto and the Alto Trek game - eviltoast

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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    6 months ago

    It’s impressive how fast our modems are compared to the 1kbit/s one! And yes, we’ve come a long way, and it’s nice to look back at these things sometimes.