Well, the Terminal's UI when introduced in the early 1980s was cutting edge, but that meant text mode and keyboards - no GUIs or mice back then. If being launc

Well, the Terminal's UI when introduced in the early 1980s was cutting edge, but that meant text mode and keyboards - no GUIs or mice back then. If being launched today, just like back then, it'd be designed to provide both as shallow as possible a learning curve for new users and power and speed for experts. In the 1980s that meant full-screen UI with numeric menus, Go codes, and custom hardware; today, that'd mean a discoverable point-and-click self-teaching GUI for the newbies, backed up by keyboard shortcuts, scripting, and a command bar for power users.