History of user interfaces

A set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943-1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.

Henry Dreyfuss wrote a book called "Designing for people" in which he talked about his ideas related to the relationship between humans and machines, namely "fitting the machine to the man rather than the man to the machine"

Revolutionary computer collaboration system developed in the 1960s. Designed by Douglas Engelbart and implemented by researchers at the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), the NLS system was the first to employ the practical use of hypertext links, the mouse, raster-scan video monitors, information organized by relevance, screen windowing, presentation programs, and other modern computing concepts.

Apple gave Xerox the opportunity to buy $1 million of Apple stock. (needs more info)

Development began in 1979. NASA used it on the Space Shuttle in early 1980s.

Window based system with icons. First version of Apple Macintosh operating system and the beginning of the classic Mac OS series. Even though other personal computers came before it, Macintosh changed the way people thought about personal computers.

IBM got a lot of competition from IBM-compatible devices so they came up with Micro Channel architecture, their own copyrighted standard - no longer compatible with their older versions. It backfired. Nine leading competitors created their own standard called Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA). EISA was compatible with previous versions and easily available for companies to purchase.

The first smartphone. First to include phone and PDA features in one device. It had a touchscreen.

The most notable was the inclusion of the "START" button which is still present in Windows 10

First phone with a front facing camera and the first mobile color videophone. It could send 2 photos per second via Japan's PHS network system