The Real History of the GUI

Bibliography

All factually based material is sourced from one or more of the following:

Ahead of the Pack: Ivan R. Sutherland
http://www.sun.com/960710/feature3/sketchpad.html

Alan Kay
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML

Amiga
http://www.amiga.com/

Apple History
http://www.apple-history.com/history.html
http://www.apple-history.com/GUI.html
http://www.mactoolbox.com/applehistory/mainpage.html

The Apple Lisa: GOO-ee for Everybody
http://inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/weekly/aa043099.htm

Apple Museum
http://hawking.unh.edu/jmm/Museum.html

Bill Gates: Before Microsoft
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html

Brief History of Computing
http://www.ox.compsoc.org.uk/~swhite/history.html

Brief History of GUI
http://prcarter.home.mindspring.com/gui.html

Caldera and DR-DOS
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~kkoster/microsoft/caldera.html

Chronology of Personal Computers, 1908-1984
http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/comp1980.htm

Development of Computer Graphics - Timeline
http://www.wiu.edu/users/miart/web%20syl/handouts/timeline.html

Digital Research (Joe Wein)
http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/dri.html

Famous Vaporware Products
http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art26.htm

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http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121598.htm

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http://www.fortune.com/fortune/magazine/1995/951002/cover.html

GEOS History
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/9020/geos/history.htm

Graphical User Interface (Encyclopedia Britannica)
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/3/0,5716,117673+1+109589,00.html

Graphical User Interface Timeline
http://pla-netx.com/linebackn/guis/guitimeline.html

History of Computers
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/classes/bio595/timeline.html

History of Computers During My Lifetime
http://www.pattosoft.com/com.au/Jason/Articles/HistoryOfComputers/

A History of Innovation
http://www.dourish.com/innovation.html

A History of the GUI
http://www2.kenyon.edu/people/adamsal/gui/gui.htm

The History of Simula
http://java.sun.com/people/jag/SimulaHistory.html

History of Smalltalk
http://www.daddyp.freeserve.co.uk/dd/languages/smalltalk/content/origins.html

Humorous Quotations
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/humor.html

Jef Raskin’s Home Page: Holes in the Histories
http://www.jefraskin.com/forjef2/jefweb-compiled/published/holes.html

The LangaList, Standard Edition, 2001-08-23
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-08-23.htm

Mac OS X History
http://www.macos.utah.edu/Documentation/macosx/history/mac_osx_history.html

Macintosh OS
http://www.macintoshos.com/

MacKiDo/Interface/UI_history
http://www.insanely-great.com/Interface/ui_history.html

Maurice Randall Talks GEOS (code base for the C-64 GEOS can be found here)
http://www.ia4u.net/~maurice/

Microcomputers Timeline
http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/

Microsoft Settles Caldera Anti-Trust Lawsuit
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2420035,00.html

Microsoft Timeline - Microsoft Museum
http://www.microsoft.com/MSCorp/Museum/timelines/microsoft/timelines.asp

The Mothership (Apple Mac and Lisa archive)
http://jupiterii.tripod.com/

Neil Franklin’s archive of Usenet exchanges
http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19980504_GUI_History

Patents: Douglas C. Engelbart
http://www.bootstrap.org/dce-patents.htm

PC’s History and Development
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/pc_hd.html

PC Magazine: Windows 98: A History of Windows
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/windows98/history.html

Re: Xerox, Apple, and Progress
http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_raskin.html

The Real History of the GUI: Slashdot Message Boards (responses to original article)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=20637

The Rise of the Graphical User Interface
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv02n4/article3.html

Shells vs. GUI vs. Muhammed Ali
http://www.thekeep.org/~rmitz/blazemonger.html

A Short History of CP/M
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5711/history.html

Simula and Smalltalk: A Social and Political History
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/dugan/history.html

Smalltalk Industry Council (language background)
http://www.stic.org/news.ez?viewLink=7

Steve Wozniak’s Home Page
http://www.woz.org/

Steven Wozniak
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/WOZNIAK.HTM

The Unofficial Apple Museum
http://www.hughes.net/~gcifu/applemuseum/

TIME Magazine article, “Machine of the Year,” 1-3-1983, reprinted at:
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Time.MOTY.1982.html

User Interface: GUI History
http://www.cne.gmu.edu/itcore/userinterface/GUIHistory1.html

VisiCalc: History of the First Spreadsheet
http://inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/weekly/aa010199.htm

Welcome to Squeak (a descendant of Smalltalk)
http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu.

What Happened to DR-DOS?
http://www.mackido.com/History/History_DrDos.html

Who Invented the Computer Mouse
http://inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/weekly/aa081898.htm

Windows 1.0 to Windows Beyond 2000
http://inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/weekly/aa080499.htm

Xerox PARC
http://www.techweek.com/articles/3-22-99/parc.htm

The Xerox Star: A Retrospective
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Office/7101/retrospect/