The Visual History of the Graphical User Interface

A great find from Tim Tabor, it's Marcin Wichary's Guidebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery, featuring some great historical timelines illustrating the history of the icon.  The site is truly a treasure.  One of my favorite sections is a collection of "First Run" Screenshots - all the different GUIs as they look just after setup.

 

 


 

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Thursday, March 25, 2004 2:46:19 AM UTC
Hey! Looks like somebody on the Longhorn team ripped off the funny analog clock.

Check out Amiga OS Workbench 1.0's desktop clock...
http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/interfaces/amigaos/amigaos10/amigaos10/desktop

OK, OK -- so Longhorn's is slightly less pixelated, but it still sounds like a solid lawsuit to me! ;)
Joe Duffy
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