It had a bitmapped screen, and was the first computer to demonstrate the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI). Several thousand units were built and were heavily used at PARC, as …

Dec 19, 1997 · Apple engineers developed Lisa, the first GUI-based computer available to the public. It was too expensive; no one bought it. But the seed germinated into a flower that would change the …

A full 10 years before mass produced computers like the Apple Macintosh came onto the market, Xerox developed the Alto (see below), the first computer designed from the start to support an operating …

Since there were no such computers at the time, PARC invented their own. This was dubbed the Alto, and was first completed in 1973. The Alto was not a microcomputer as such, although its working …

What was the first graphical user interface (GUI)? The first graphical user interface was developed by researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s.

Lisa is the first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). It was thus an important milestone in computing as soon Microsoft Windows and the Apple Macintosh would soon …

Apr 22, 2025 · While modern users associate GUIs with giants like Microsoft, Apple, or Linux, the origins of this transformative technology trace back to an unexpected pioneer: Xerox. In 1973, researchers at...

Sketchpad, created in 1962 by Ivan Sutherland at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, is considered the first computer with a windowing interface.

In 1963 Ivan Sutherland, a student at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, working on the experimental TX- 2 computer, created the first graphical user interface, or first interactive …

This timeline lists all of the graphical user interface environments that I have been able to find information about through my own research and on the Internet.