Monday, January 27, 2014

Apple's Mac still influences, 30 years after debut -

From Times OF India

NEW YORK: Look around. Many of the gadgets you see drew inspiration from the original Mac computer.

Computers at the time typically required people to type in commands. Once the Mac came out 30 years ago Friday, people could instead navigate with a graphical user interface. Available options were organized into menus. People clicked icons to run programmes and dragged and dropped files to move them.


The Mac introduced real-world metaphors such as using a trash can to delete files. It brought us fonts and other tools once limited to professional printers. Most importantly .. Read More

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