On 08/26/2011 09:35 AM, sparaig wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardwillytexwilliams"<willytex@...> > wrote: >> >> >> Bhairitu: >>> Of course much of today's GUI concept came from >>> the work of Doug Engelbart... >>> >> The Apple Macintosh was the first commercially >> successful personal computer with a graphical user >> interface. > Missed the reference to Douglas Engelbart. > > Alan Kay (lead/participant for most of the GUI and much of the other advanced > technology work at Xerox) says that almost every major computer invention in > the past 45 years was inspired by Douglas Engelbart's "Mother of all Demos"... > > google "Mother of all Demos" for more info. > > L.
The YouTube link I provided IS part 1 of 9 of "The Mother of All Demos" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
