Triumph of the Nerds Part 3

Triumph of the Nerds Part 3

This documentary is mostly about the invention of the GUI (Graphical user interface).

It all begins with the Xerox Alto, the Xerox Alto introduced some ideas, which it used:

• ·       Object Oriented Programming
• ·       Networking
• ·       Graphic User Interface

Well nowdays is really common to use Object Oriented Programming, and actually is a obligatory subject in the basic programming. We are accustomed to use it, and has many applications. Actually I really like it.

But at that time, well still happens, the graphical user interface

In December 1979, Steve Jobs visited Xerox Parc, where he was shown the SmallTalk-80 which had OOP, networking for the Enterprise and GUI. In this moment he realized that the GUI was the future of the personal computers and it could be what  Apple needed to become the market leader.

The Lisa was the first Apple computer to have GUI, but it was not a commercial success because of the high price compared to the IBM computers, and it is logical, I mean if something looks nice and it is easy to use probably will be succesfull but if it does the same things that a cheapper version  well … thats why Apple had lots of troubles.

After some time, Apple developed another GUI called the Macintosh, its cost was slower, close to the price of the IBM machine. The Machintosh became the first affordable PC with a GUI Interface. But now the problem was the lack of applications, it were too few things to do in it.

Bill Gates, again, saw another opportunity for his company to, make an empire … cof cof i mean,  grow. He saw that the future was in the GUI and began working on one, (chan chan chan , Does somebody say Windows?). When Apple noticed that Miscrosoft was doing the same and they treated to stop them.

They lose … I mean I think it's obvious.