Today's GUIs have a dirty little secret. As AI, Virtual Reality, and ubiquitous computing are reshaping the realms of design and engineering, it's crucial to delve into the origins of the graphical user interface (GUI) and uncover its deeper layers. It's time to step away from design tools, methods, windows and buttons and dive a bit into where all this came from, what we have today, and what we've lost along the way. This video is a personal exploration into the GUI's history, focusing on its complexities, marvels, and contradictions. We'll go beyond the surface to reveal the GUI's dirty little secret and understand its significant role in our digital evolution. Chapters 03:26 Part 01: Can't escape history 03:29 Early computers 06:43 The CRT technology 09:09 Vannevar Bush and the memex machine 10:52 Cold war and SAGE computer 13:14 Part 02: What's a computer for? 13:23 Joseph Licklider and man-computer symbiosis 19:55 Ivan Sutherland and the Sketchpad System 21:36 Douglas Engelbart and augmenting human intellect 27:31 Part 03: The mother of all demos 32:15 The invention of the mouse 35:44 Verb-noun commands and other peripherals 38:26 Video collaboration and screen sharing 39:19 Introduction of ARPANet 40:39 Ted Nelson and hypertext 43:44 Rand Tablet and GRAIL 47:12 Part 04: "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us" 47:22 Alan Kay 49:57 Alan Kay's encounter with Seymour Papert 50:51 Influence of media & educational psychology on software design 58:29 The Alto computer, Smalltalk and the birth of modern GUI 01:02:51 Overlapping windows 01:04:29 Pop-up (context) menus 01:05:49 Larry Tesler 01:08:25 The use of icons for programming with Pygmalion by David Smith 01:11:27 GYPSY and Bravo text editors and their user interface 01:16:46 The design of file browsers 01:18:05 The birth of the desktop metaphor 01:19:48 Steve Job's visit to PARC, Xerox failures, and the GUI on personal computers (Lisa, Macintosh, IBM, Windows, Amiga) 01:34:25 Part 05: It's a wonderful curse 01:34:28 What we lost with the desktop metaphor 01:39:40 Jeff Raskin & the Canon Cat computer interface 01:43:11 The lost world of ZUIs (Zoomable User Interfaces) on an operating system 01:46:05 MIT's Spatial Dataland 01:47:40 Ted Nelson, Xanadu and the curse of imitating paper on a screen 01:53:43 what the web was about, and what it ended up with 01:59:17 mobile computing inherited the curse 02:02:02 Outro: A very short conclusion Intro Music: X-Files 2B Studio Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/ Tracks: Dreamwave Lofi Ambient (No Copyright Music) by MokkaMusic / Reflections of Infinity Deep Dreamwave Ambient (No Copyright Music) by MokkaMusic / Foggy City Dreamscape Ambient For Reflective Evening (No Copyright Music) by MokkaMusic / Snowy Silence Calm Deep and Peaceful (No Copyright Music) by MokkaMusic / Calmness Music from: Audio Library - Free Music Track Name: Retro Dreamscape - Twin Musicom