The History of GUI 

The design of Apple is always years ahead and seems to never age, truly remarkable.

The Start button and task bar really made a huge impact in GUI.

No Mentioning of the X Window System (1984) who is still used today on almost all Linux systems, Motif (1989) who invented most interface elements that defined how GUIs look today? Or CDE (1993) which introduced features recently added to Windows 10. No Mentioning of KDE or GNOME or XGL or Compiz? This list is very uncomplete and lacks one of the most important influences.

There were also BEOS, GEOS/Desktop and later on, Linux came out strong with a GUI in 1996 after having loitered around for a while in the TTY world. Many other Unix flavours also did their own XWindows like HP and SGI (etc). The home computer Acorn (UK) like Atari, had a built in GUI that was popular in the UK. There was also other GUI capable devices such as the pocket PC (Windows CE) and Apple Newton devices that did what your average Smartphone/pad do today. I suspect this was a school presentation video and not some historically accurate Discovery Channel documentary, so i skip adding to the criticism others already have given and leave these quotes here if anyone want to pick up the challenge and do a more comprehensive video.

as someone who like gui design and how content are presented on a computer this video really cheer me up. i respect all ui and their design, some ui have really slick and cool icon like gnome and machintos and some other have really geek or nerdy feels to it like holo ui of android. metro ui looks futuristic. aero desktop of windows vista and seven looks cool too.

Also you forgot the GEM tos system from the Atari ST that came out in 1985 ( poor mans mac )

1986 - Apple II WTF ??? Apple II was released before Macintosh and did not even have GUI and specialy not Apple System ( later known as Mac OS ).

Every difference between Windows 10, OS X/11, and every major Linux shell amount to only minor tweaks, minor differences of UX philosophy, and minor differences of eye candy. The same is true for the GUI in general from 1984 to present. Case in point, the desktop. It's gone from being a neutral colored background for windows to be stacked upon, to a high pixel true color image or animation for windows to be stacked upon. Even third party apps that "mod" the desktop do nothing but stack some info on top of it. If you get crazy, you might even stack static shortcut icons to your most used apps/files/folders on top of it.

What about GEOS.. GEOS on the Commodore 64 was my first introduction to a GUI style OS and it was amazing.. I still can't believe to this day how they got a full Windows style OS with loads of apps and office apps available for it all the while running on a 1mhz CPU with 64kb ram.. I heard it was all programmed in assembly language

Cool music choice as well

The AmigaOS date is wrong.

I watched this video now only realizing it was made 12 years ago. LOL I was waiting for windows 10.

Great video,really brings back old youtube memories and is actually informative.

I appreciate the effort of showing all the different cool graphical user interfaces, but there are a few suggestions I would like to point out. For example you just give the name of some Mac models rather than the System version, you got wrong the version of Amiga OS (there have been quite a few versions and the interface evolved over time, much like Windows). You forgot a few very interesting systems like RiscOS, the GEM GUI of Atari , and BeOS (BeOS was the precursor of Haiku but it came out much earlier, in the late 90's). The Operating System "QNX" has a great GUI as well, worth of mention. ARoS and Amiga OS 4.0 would have been nice to see as well. And in regards to Linux, you have mentioned some distribution names, but as a matter of fact, Linux has so many different GUI's that can be used on all distros and are also used by the BSD OS, so it would have been more appropriate to just name and show the different GUI's (from Gnome to KDE, from XFCE to Enlightenment) stating that they are typically used on BSD, Linux and probably other systems.

ALSO android,iOS and the many many phone firmwares are GUIs even though they are not windowing interfaces the sony XMB on psp and ps3 are my favorite unique GUIs

Tandy (Radio Shack) had a simple, effetive GUI: Desk Mate, as seen on this video, thanks. I still love Apple!

great video you guys

Fail - You forget to include Digital Research "Crystal" in 1984 and then Digital Research GEM released on the PC in Feb 1985 and then TOS - the 68000 version of GEM released on the Atari ST series in June of 1985.

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. I also like the song. Great work.

I had a Macintosh SE that used System 7.5, too!

excellent video. Thanks a lot!

i wonder what it felt like to use an Alto at PARC for the first time ..

How do you get a gui from text based programming?? I've always wondered.

Things are actually the same. They just became "prettier".

what about the many many x.org ui options they are significant too

Holy shit was Amiga ahead of it's time. Almost makes me want to get a PPC.

Ciao, the Amiga OS/Workbench 3.1 was coming out in ca.1993 with the A1200/4000, in 1985 Amiga OS 1.0/Workbench 1.0 was coming out with the Amiga 1000.. well, maybe you are a typical Microsoft Windows User, that's ok, but you forgotten to mention BeOS, QNX Neutrino, Atari TOS, Linux etc .

In 2002 I was in middle school, and at that time I was learning computers that use DOS. While WinXP already exists. When I ask my computer teacher why do we use DOS? While WinXP already exists, my teacher answered simply, "if you want to run, then you must learn to walk". And now I use Linux.

correction system 7.5 came out in the 93 or 94 year it was the first power pc OS for mac's

The song stuck with me bc its so GUI.

1985 amiga os 3.5 ????? What a mistake!!!!

Missing DRI Crystal/GEM from 1983, Atari TOS from 1985 as well... Don’t post stuff if you aren’t even going to put in the time to do proper research

Why this GUI where not implemented in a co processor card with own graphic chip and rom code, letting the current processor run full speed, like servers where a GUI is useless or can be deported. Dos 3.3 introduce pipes that would act to turn DOS command into graphic GUI

The Japanese Stole My 3D Tilted Window User Interface I built in 1998 and Created Madotate in 1999, then Microsoft used Madotate to create Task Gallery in 1999 which then resulted into Vista Aero 3D Flip, Then Apple also Used My 3D Interface and Created Cover Flow for ITUNES. Then in 2005 -2006 Apple then Stole My Interactive Menu that I used for My Portfolio version 1 website that was built in Flash to create the first 2D Interactive Smartphone Home screen and named it the Springboard and Used that to create the IPhone Touch directly after the Ipod.

tho i m a windows user... Mac OS X was a big change

IRIX is missing, the OS of all Silicon Graphics computers.. and some Linux please!

No RISC OS, this is a very US-centric history.

heartly saying you use the time better in this making really helpful to teach others

Windows’s Aero glass & macOS’s Aqua are the best. To bad both company replace them with worse.

Anyway this video have nothing with description and title of the video because it does not represent evolution of OS because you put some GUIs that are copy of much older ones or they are just inferior to older ones and they are not evolution of GUI at all. Haiku is funniest of them all because Haiku is some sort of BeOS clone and Haiku GUI is 100% same as GUI from BeOS that died long time ago.

Windows 10 didn’t even exist yet Feel old yet?

nice

So actually MACINTOSH came after Xerox for an icon-driven OS. Did not know.

Windows ME was insignificant and just a propped up 98. Windows 2000 was a big step with it's NT core. Also you skipped 3.11 which was an important milestone. On top of that BeOS was significant and apparently Linux wasn't a thing at all.

Mac OS 10(Jaguar).-10.11.6(Tiger, El Capitain)

Even Amiga Workbench isn't available in 1985? Apple II GUI is called Mousetext, gs/os? Atari tos?lisa is not '83 I think '81-82

NextStep actually 1989

XEROX ARE THE KING AND THE INVENTOR all others just Patent it and Copy .

whats about lindows and linex unex freedos and so on. I think you should have just stuck with the basic Microsoft and apple os stuff since the video would take forever to do every gui every used.

To the author of this video: it's really bad work. You did not properly research the subject and the result is a presentation that's full of mistakes and misses important systems. Removing the video would be wise at this point.

What are the benefits of the GUI?

You left out GEM!

some stuff is missing like tandy os and dos shell and os/2

Holly Mountains

Oh i like youtube broken app i can type comment but i cant see comments🙂

amiga os 3.5 was not released in 1985...nor was the star the first gui you skipped the alto from 1973.

Where is AIX

Waters Prairie

for me, its XP kino

you forgot Windows 8, 8.1, 10

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PRAISE THE SUNOS 3.5

2:21 thuss the pc world was born

You missed out gnome 3.0

Windows 10? 8? 8.1?

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Your dates are flawed

no atari st? :(

Where is Windows 11? Wo ist windows 11? 🤣

Still BeOS/Haiku is unbeatable from POV of simplicity and convenience of the UI.

Muito Loko, só essa música do caralho q eh foda

Os history

k nice review

music annoying, can't watch this