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Not only that, it was a couple of months after the first usability testing sessions of the original UI of Windows 95[1] (the one with a literal "tray" under the
by mananaysiempre 3y ago
Not only that, it was a couple of months after the first usability testing sessions of the original UI of Windows 95[1] (the one with a literal "tray" under the "desktop"[2,3]).
[1] https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_95_Usability_Testing_Builds https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_95_Usability_Testing_Build...
[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030910-00/?p=42583 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030910-00/?p=42...
[3] http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20030910_053_why_do_some_people_call_the_taskbar_the_tray.htm http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20030910_053_...
- atombender 3y agoThe image in links 2-3 doesn't load for me. Is there an archived copy somewhere?
- cesarb 3y agoThe trick is to know that the true address of that blog was at blogs.msdn.com. Here it is, complete with comments (which were lost when the blog was moved): https://web.archive.org/web/20050924221736/http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/10/54831.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20050924221736/http://blogs.msdn...
- accrual 3y ago> In early builds of Windows 95, the taskbar originally wasn't a taskbar; it was a folder window docked at the bottom of the screen that you could drag/drop things into/out of, sort of like the organizer tray in the top drawer of you desk. The image is really fascinating to me. The whole taskbar paradigm we're familiar with today started life as what sounds like a quick hack. Draw a bar that draws the contents of a folder in a narrow bar format. Later extend it to hold running applications instead.