Diary of a WIMP at middle age
, Douglas Engelbart took the stage at Brooks Hall in San Francisco to demonstrate the system he and colleagues at the Augmentation Research Center had spent nearly ten years building. They called it NLS, for oNLine System, and over the next 90 minutes Engelbart would reveal just how far they’d progressed.
The Dynabook never became a reality, due in part to technological limitations of the time. Engelbart’s NLS likewise never became a viable system. Unlike Kay, Engelbart embraced complexity. His virtuoso demonstration belied the NLS’s steep learning curve; at one point he told his colleagues it would eventually have fifty thousand instructions.
Yet as with Douglas Engelbart’s earlier NLS, the potential of Xerox’s designs spoke to many users. “The Alto cemented some aspects, but the Xerox Star was where it all came together,” says Bruce Damer, a user interface expert who maintains a collection of. “That’s where you had something that looked beautiful and was functional. It was a complete system launched in April 1981.
Yet there are signs of a thaw in the decades-long interface freeze that’s kept us working with GUIs virtually identical to the Alto. Damer points to augmented reality as one possible source of novelty. Yes, the avatar-based interfaces of 1990s virtual reality never really caught on, but who’s to say what might have if true revolutionaries get their hands on, say, Google Glass? The potential of HTML5-based operating systems leaves room for experimentation as well.
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