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Jun 11, 2008 10:03 AM

Windows XP

2001

Windows XP desktop

2001

Mac OS X

2001

Apple's OS X introduced a new level of interface experience with its slick high-resolution graphics.

Macintosh OS 9

1999

Apple's OS 9 was a big step up in visual clarity and attractiveness.

Windows 98 desktop

1998

Windows 98

1998

Windows 95

1995

Windows 3.1

1992

Windows 3.0

1990

Windows 1.0

1985

Microsoft released the first version of Windows. Many elements of the graphical user interface were similar to Apple's Macintosh, released a year earlier. This led to a long legal battle between th...

Apple Macintosh OS 1

1984

Apple released the Macintosh after the failed Lisa at a much lower price tag of $2,500.

MacWrite

1984

With the Macintosh, Apple released the first WYSIWYG word processor, called MacWrite. That stands for What You See Is What You Get, meaning, the way the page looks on the screen is how it will look...

Apple Lisa Personal Computer

1983

The Apple Lisa was the first commercially released computer to use a graphical user interface. It featured a word processor, calculator, clock, file manager, and a few other programs. It was slow a...

Word processing before the GUI

1982

Before computers used a graphical user interface, word processing programs required you to type keyboard commands to format text and you couldn't see what it was going to look like until you printe...

Microsoft Disk Operating System (MSDOS)

1981

Until Windows in 1985, Microsoft made computers run without a graphical user interface. In DOS, you had to type commands at a prompt to open programs and files.

Xerox Alto desktop computer

1972

The Xerox Alto has the first graphical user interface on a desktop computer. The screen had a unique vertical layout similar to a sheet of paper. You could click on files to open them in an applica...

First Mouse

1963

The first mouse, invented by Douglas Engelbart.

Punched Tape

1950

A punched tape roll was fed through a teletype machine to give instructions to the mainframe computer.

Teletype

1950

The teletype machine was used to type programs on punched tape that fed into the mainframe computer.

Punched Cards

1948

The first computers were controlled by inserting cards punched with holes. Output was also given on cards with holes punched in them that would then have to be interpreted.

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