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Where Can I Find a History of GUIs from a Programmer's Perspective
I have long been fascinated by the history of GUIs such as Xerox's early work (Smalltalk, Star), the Apple Lisa, the Apple Macintosh, Windows, the X Window System, NEXTSTEP, Sun NeWS, BeOS, KDE, GNOME, and others. However, I haven't found much about the history of GUIs from a programmer's perspective. I am interested in learning about how GUI frameworks have evolved over time. I am wondering if there are any good resources I can read to learn about this.
- RNeff 7y agoStart with the book: Designing Interactions, compiled and edited by Bill Moggridge, 2007. ACM has a special interest group, SIGCHI, on Computer Human Interaction. They have online resources, local chapters, an annual conference https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/sigchi https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/sigchi Also an annual conference: https://sigchi.org/conferences/upcoming-conferences/ https://sigchi.org/conferences/upcoming-conferences/ If you have access to ACM's Digital Library, all of the Proceedings are there. Do searches for documentation for different systems. There is a NextStep manual on Archive.org, for example. There are Xerox PARC Altos manuals at bitsavers.org. There are X Windows docs at X.org.