GUIs From 1984 to the Present

alewar writes "This nice gallery shows the evolution in the appearance of Mac OS, Microsoft Windows and KDE through the years, from the first version to the last available. Not technical, but still interesting to recall some memories from the good old days."

They missed the most memorable

[truckaxle]

And just where is the blue screen of death [firestream.net]

microsoft

[Anonymous Coward]

The 'O' in the MS logo from 1985 kinda looks like a goatse..

My desktop snapshot collection

[digitalhermit]

1994:

> ls -a .profile

1997:

~ ls -a .profile .sh_history

1998:
tardis ~ ls -a .profile .sh_history .bash_profile

2001:
[kll@apocalypse] ls -a .profile .sh_history .gnurc

2004:
[kll@helios] ssh apocalypse hostname
apocalypse

2006:
[kll@xm-fc5-001] ssh localhost
password:

Virtual Machine - FC5 - Image 001
Be nice!

Re:Some corrections.

[Indras]

And the picture for Mac System 7 clearly says "7.5.3" in the screenshot (while 7.5 is supposed to be a couple pictures down).

Windows ME?

[EnsilZah]

What, no mention of Windows ME?
It's almost as if someone doesn't want to acknowledge it ever existed.

Apple copies Microsoft....

[GoulDuck]

If these screenshots are corret, we now have proff that Apple copied Microsofts idea about using colors!

Re:They missed the most memorable

[TheNetAvenger]

And just where is the blue screen of death


They are all in the same gallery as the Kernel Panic screens, the Apple System Bomb Messages, and the OSX Spontaneous Restart Screenshots.

BOB?

[awesomo2001]

You managed to forget Microsoft's BOB. What's your secret?

Re:Sad state of GUI development

[ucblockhead]

You're so right! You want to know what else pisses me off? Cars. Cars still use the dated "Steering wheel/Accelerator/Brake" paradigm. Where's the originality!?

Re:Well then

[miyako]

No, actually he's under an NDA from Apple, which is why he couldn't post anything that described how Quartz actually works.