Microsoft 1978

**Cheese Sandwich** · June 15th, 2007

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For extra entertainment, check out the December 20, 2006 entry.

**jgrabham** · June 15th, 2007

Originally Posted by Cheese Sandwich

http://jeremyfain.wordpress.com/tag/microsoft/page/2/

For extra entertainment, check out the December 20, 2006 entry.

The guy in the middle looks like Ross from friends a colledge (when he had that bad afro)

And the girl at the bottom looks like Ozzy Osbourne

**prizrak** · June 16th, 2007

Yeah they were all dorks, we know that

**kamaboko** · June 16th, 2007

Hell...I'd love to be part of that original group. Like it or not, they changed the face of computing, period. Others came before and after, but no one has matched their impact.

**SNYP40A1** · June 16th, 2007

Originally Posted by kamaboko

Hell...I'd love to be part of that original group. Like it or not, they changed the face of computing, period. Others came before and after, but no one has matched their impact.

Yeah, gotta give them credit for creating a standard. Unfortunately, the standard has stuck and it's hard to fix it.

**FuturePilot** · June 16th, 2007

Hahaha, funny stuff

**steven8** · June 16th, 2007

Just like pro Wrestling. We've introduced the villains, no we introduce the heros:

Graphical User Interfaces Arrive - The Xerox Alto

In the late 1970's and early 80's, the Xerox Alto started the graphical user interface revolution which would sweep through the computer industry over the following decade. The desk-sized Alto, and its commercialized descendant the Xerox Star, were the first GUI-based computers. Researchers at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) developed the basic ideas of a graphical user interface along with all the associated innovations - the mouse, the desktop metaphor, icons, windows, menus etc. Although the ideas in the Xerox Star were revolutionary, it was a huge failure commercially. This was due mainly to the price tag of $50,000.

When Steve Jobs took a tour of Xerox PARC in 1979, he saw the Alto and realized it was the future of computing. He quickly began to work towards bringing the technology to market. Many of the ideas in the Alto showed up two years later in the Apple Lisa, and finally made it to market in the Apple Macintosh. Several Xerox researchers also left to join Apple.