But in 1984, Apple’s Macintosh introduced the graphical user interface and mouse to a wide audience, and a whole new way to interact with a computer was born. Us old-timers took a while to get ...

Although the graphical user interface (GUI) owes its existence to the contribution of many great minds in the history of technology, Apple was first to market with a personal computer that ...

April 27, 1981: The computer mouse makes its debut. April 27, 1981: ... including a keyboard about the size of a toaster — revolutionized ... It was the first with a graphical user interface, ...

The Xerox Star 8010 was the first commercial computer system to come with a mouse, as well as a bitmapped, window-based graphical user interface (GUI) featuring icons and folders.

However, the device didn't become commercially viable until the release of Apple's Macintosh in 1984, which popularized the use of graphical user interfaces and pointing devices.

The Apple Lisa 1 was the brainchild of Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It was also the first personal computer to use a graphical user interface instead of simple text, and introduced ...

The way a person interacts and commands a computer, tablet, smartphone or other electronic device. The user interface (UI) comprises the screen menus and icons, keyboard shortcuts, mouse and ...

In 1972, Xerox released an advert for the Alto, introducing people to the world’s first computer with a graphical user interface, mouse, and distinctive portrait screen.

Jobs was in the process of designing and building Lisa, his first computer, and at the time it only had a command-line interface -- and then he saw the mouse-and-GUI at PARC.

Famously, in December of 1979, Steve Jobs visited Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, and saw the mouse-driven graphical user interface on the Alto, a filing cabinet-sized computer which some ...