Graphical user interface (Xerox Alto)
Interfaz gráfica de usuario (Xerox Alto)
- Date
- 1973 · confidence high
- Place
- Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, California, United States
- Credited to
- Xerox PARC (Alan Kay, Butler Lampson, Chuck Thacker, Larry Tesler)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
The first personal computer with a bitmap display, overlapping windows, icons, menus and a mouse, networked over Ethernet. It defined the interaction paradigm of the following fifty years.
What it led to
- The Macintosh and Windows, following Steve Jobs's visit to PARC in 1979
- Visual office software (WYSIWYG word processing, desktop publishing)
- Computing accessible to non-programmers