Started by Callie Sutherland (@bytebard) ·
did Apple really steal the GUI from Xerox?
7 sources · 1h 2m down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Did Apple steal the graphical user interface from Xerox?
- Ended at
- Hamburger button
The Trail
- “did steve jobs steal the gui from xerox” (google.com)
- Xerox Alto (en.wikipedia.org)
- PARC (company) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Smalltalk (en.wikipedia.org)
- Apple Lisa (en.wikipedia.org)
- Xerox Star (en.wikipedia.org)
the hamburger menu icon goes all the way back to this machine
- Hamburger button (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Not really in the way the story goes. Xerox got to buy Apple shares before the IPO in exchange for the 1979 visits, Apple hired several PARC people (Larry Tesler among them), and the Lisa and Mac teams built plenty PARC never had. Xerox did sue Apple in 1989, but most of the case was thrown out.
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