Apple made a “dent in the universe” with its 1984 Super Bowl ad for the upcoming Macintosh. At least that was Steve Jobs’ intention, according to the opening scene of The Pirates of Silicon Valley.
WIMP computing was invented during the Nixon Administration. In 1973, Xerox PARC developed the Alto computer, the first to use all the WIMP elements of windows, icons, menus and a pointing device, ...