{"id":50,"date":"2012-05-06T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T06:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2012-05-06T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T17:38:59","slug":"xerox-star-gui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/xerox-star-gui\/","title":{"rendered":"See the fabled Xerox Star graphical user interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a video posted to YouTube that shows off the way-ahead-of-its-time Xerox Star workstation (officially the 8010 Information System). An uncredited speaker introduces the clip (a quick Google search tells me it&#8217;s likely part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hci-class.org\/\">a Stanford class on computer-human interaction<\/a>&#8212; that you can take online, for free!)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>In 1981<\/strong> Xerox introduced the\u00a0Star office information system. <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The radical user interface of Star<\/span><\/strong> had a major impact on the office system and personal computer industry. Star <strong>introduced the use of icons<\/strong> to represent\u00a0objects and applications, <strong>the desktop metaphor<\/strong> with a direct manipulation interface, windows containing multimedia documents, property and option sheets, and generic commands. <strong>In some ways<\/strong>, such as its use of the move, copy, and delete functions, <strong>Star remains unsurpassed in the consistancy of its interface<\/strong>. Other features such as <strong>multimedia, multi-lingual documents have only recently appeared in other systems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The following video tape was made in 1982 by two Star designers: David Canfield Smith and Charles\u00a0Irby. It illustrates some of the innovations in computer-human interfaces embodied in the Xerox Star.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cn4vC80Pv6Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part two is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ODZBL80JPqw&amp;feature=plcp\">available on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a video posted to YouTube that shows off the way-ahead-of-its-time Xerox Star workstation (officially the 8010 Information System). An uncredited speaker introduces the clip (a quick Google search tells me it&#8217;s likely part of a Stanford class on computer-human interaction&#8212; that you can take online, for free!) &#8220;In 1981 Xerox introduced the\u00a0Star office information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}