History of the GUI
ColdFusion
I stumbled upon a very interesting write-up on the GUI today.
From "A History of The GUI"
If you have the time, and you like reading history, read this A History of the GUI by Jeremy Reimer
From "A History of The GUI"
Douglas Englebart completed his degree in electrical engineering in 1948 and settled down in a nice job at the NACA Institute (the forerunner of NASA). However, one day while driving to work he had an epiphany: he realized that his real calling as an engineer was not to work on small projects that might only benefit a few people. Instead, he wanted to work on something that would benefit all of humanity. He recalled Bush's essay and started thinking about ways in which a machine could be built that would augment human intellect. During the war he had worked as a radar operator, so he was able to envision a display system built around cathode ray tubes where the user could build models of information graphically and jump around dynamically to whatever interested them.
If you have the time, and you like reading history, read this A History of the GUI by Jeremy Reimer
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