First Mouse by Doug Engelbart - 1960's
Engelbart's team also developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs.
Xerox Star -1981 (Screenshot from Star's successor:
ViewPoint)
First commercial computer featuring WIMP GUI. (Commercial failure)
See The Xerox "Star": A Retrospective
Apple Lisa - 1983
Commercially unsuccessful.
Possible name origins:
- Steve Job's first daughter, born in 1978, was named Lisa.
- Local Integrated Software Architecture
- Lisa: Invented Stupid Acronym
Apple MacIntosh - 1984
First commercially successful computer to popularize GUIs.
Watch the commercial which was played only
once on TV during the '84 Super Bowl and the
Hillary Clinton spoof.
Windows 1 - 1985
Windows 2 - 1987
Windows 3.1 - 1992
Windows 95 - 1995
Windows 98 - 1998
UNIX mwm Window Manager - 1998
OS/2 Warp - 1998
Apple iMac - 1999
K Desktop Environment (KDE) - 1999 (for UNIX)
Windows XP - 2001
Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) - 2001
Windows Vista - 2006
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) - 2007
