Your comment reminded me of this interview [1] with Steve Jobs: "And they showed me really three things, but I was so blinded by the first one that I didn't ev

Your comment reminded me of this interview [1] with Steve Jobs: "And they showed me really three things, but I was so blinded by the first one that I didn't even really see the other two. One of the things they showed me was Object Oriented Programming. They showed me that, but I didn't even see that. The other one they showed me was really a networked computer system. They had over a hundred Alto computers, all networked, using email, et cetera, et cetera. I didn't even see that. I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me, which was the Graphical User Interface. I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen in my life. Now remember, it was very flawed; what we saw was incomplete, they'd done a bunch of things wrong, but we didn't know that at the time. Still though, the germ of the idea was there, and they'd done it very well. And, within, you know, ten minutes, it was obvious to me that all computers would work like this. Basically, they were copier-heads that just had no clue about a computer or what it could do. And so they just grabbed defeat from the greatest victory in the computer industry. Xerox could have owned the entire computer industry today. Could have been a company ten times its size. Could have been IBM. Could have been the IBM of the 90s. Could have been the Microsoft of the 90s." [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7TQVFSA1Y&t=56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7TQVFSA1Y&t=56