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Agreed. From the article: > Before August 1995, using a computer was an intimidating ordeal. You either knew how to handle black command lines or you were stuc
by vunderba 4mo ago
Agreed. From the article:
> Before August 1995, using a computer was an intimidating ordeal. You either knew how to handle black command lines or you were stuck with some pretty patched-up graphical interfaces.
Did the author just blank the entire Mac computer line-up from their memory? System 1 had a finder/menu/window management/etc. and came out all the way back in '84.
- wmf 4mo agoAt the time 90% of people had never even touched a Mac.
- vunderba 4mo agoMaybe so but that’s not the argument the article is making. The article is claiming that there was only one alternative way to use a computer, and that was through the use of obscure command-line semantics. Anecdotal, but Macs weren’t as uncommon as you might think, since they were subsidized in scholastic environemtns. I remember using them as an elementary school kid. Even the title of the article is absurd and ignores subsequent revolutions like Wi-fi, NT architecture, the page rank algorithm, cloud computing, etc.