> the impressions people older than me got the first time they used a GUI I wrote a whole book about it: Inventing the Future (starts end of 1976) The PARC pe

> the impressions people older than me got the first time they used a GUI I wrote a whole book about it: Inventing the Future (starts end of 1976) The PARC people already had several independent efforts (Bravo, Markup, Draw) and Smalltalk to build them with. Our task was to unify all the functionality into a single GUI. (and by the way, Jobs and his minions didn't sneak in and steal it, contrary to what you've read.) Not everyone was sold on it, a fact which some people would love to forget now. "We'll just slap a GUI on all this great functionality" was something marketing-droids actually did say. The book is written with a strict "no hindsight" rule, but a friend and I did reconsider it all, with hindsight definitely allowed: https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight