{"id":3952,"date":"2011-10-13T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2011-10-09T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:58:02","slug":"where-it-all-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/where-it-all-began\/","title":{"rendered":"Where It All Began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Cn4vC80Pv6Q?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Cn4vC80Pv6Q?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We like to think that the computers we use all started with the Apple Macintosh or Windows 3.1x.\u00a0  Those systems built on an original technology.\u00a0 The original Xerox Star User Interface.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.  Xerox had the whole package way back in 1981\/1982. (Even farther back in 1973!)<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, over the years, many systems added and contributed to what we know as the the modern GUI computer interface<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video slideshow below to see the evolution of Graphical User Interface.  These GUIs contributed to what you are now using on your own home computer.  (And keep your eyes open for <a title=\"KDE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kde.org\/screenshots\/\" target=\"_blank\">KDE<\/a>!  My favorite GUI for the <a title=\"PCLinuxOS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linux<\/a> desktop.)<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TZGGUrom1Mg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TZGGUrom1Mg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like to think that the computers we use all started with the Apple Macintosh or Windows 3.1x.\u00a0 Those systems built on an original technology.\u00a0 The original Xerox Star User Interface. That&#8217;s right. Xerox had the whole package way back in 1981\/1982. (Even farther back in 1973!) And, of course, over the years, many systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[250,401,402,406,58,9,102,399,400],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apple","tag-desktop","tag-gui","tag-gui-evolution","tag-kde","tag-linux","tag-windows","tag-xerox","tag-xerox-star-user-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}