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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Well my first computer was an Apple IIe, so yes. And I still prefer command line interfaces, even if they're in a GUI environment.

But I suppose that was a rhetorical question...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I can close my eyes and remember it, so yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This is a personal computer developed by Xerox’s PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), and it was first introduced in 1973, at a time when that same Xerox meant only “photocopy”, and IBM was an extremely important PC manufacturer;

Um