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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Windows wasn't first, Xerox was

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Xerox did so much for modern computing. If only people knew.

    [–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The company was run by morons so "Xerox" deserves being synonymous with "company run by morons". But the actual Xerox employees who invented the basic GUI deserve credit for being the great inventors they were. Unfortunately I have no fucking idea who those actual people were.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Take a look at this post. It covers some names and stories about contributions that make modern interfaces what they are today.

    [–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 2 points 1 year ago

    Very cool, thanks.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    But no person on the planet, except the nerdiest of pedants, are thinking of Xerox when they see Windows interface. They think of Windows, even if it's KDE