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He just helped fund the Internet, he didn't invent it (popular elephant
rant).

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> Subject: RE: Who invented the GUI, was RE: Moving to Mac
> From: daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, September 02, 2004 9:56 am
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> Wasn't that Al Gore?
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> I believe Xerox also invented the mouse.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mshaw2456@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mshaw2456@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:33 PM
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> The BIGGEST mistake Xerox ever made was letting Steve Jobs see what they
> had
> working in their labs.  In almost a neck-and-neck tie was the Xerox
> executives in not realizing what they had in hand there.  They were a
> copier
> company and this stuff did nothing to sell more copiers........... Regards,
> Mike Shaw
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> > > XEROX
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> > Well, yes, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center developed the first GUI,
> > ancestor of the Lisa (anybody remember that Mac-forerunner?), Macintosh,
> > WinDoze, the Amiga, XWindows, GEM, GEOS, and other GUIs even more
> obscure.
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> > Didn't they also invent SmallTalk?
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> > But today's Macintosh L&F is hardly even recognizable as the same
> > look-and-feel as what you got on a Mac128.
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