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Apple celebrates 30 years
«Back to main storyEvolution of the Mac interface--Gallery 2
By now, it's the spring of 1980 and things are starting to happen fast. This picture shows the earliest text selection, using a different highlighting technique than the team ended up with. It also shows a "command bar" at the bottom of the screen, and that the team had started to use nonmodal commands (make a selection, then perform an action, instead of the other way around).
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
Through the years
Time line: Three decades of Apple innovation The products, people and events that shaped the Mac maker.
Photos: Birth of the Mac interface
Gallery 1: Early fonts, graphics Historic Polaroids chart evolution of the user interface.
Gallery 2: Radical shift Soft-key based UI becomes mouse/windows-based.
Gallery 3: Lisa desktop Creating double-click, menu bars and more.
Gallery 4: Sketching out the Mac Before MacPaint there was LisaGraf.
Photos: Mac fans unite
Postcards from the faithful What Apple products mean to CNET News.com readers.
Cult of Mac Apple devotees have a style all their own.
Videos:
Wozniak on early Apples Company co-founder talks about building computers with cheap parts.
'It was like working at Disneyland' Former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki on the company's early days.
Perspective:
Sizzle may be subjective, but Apple's definitely got it, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper.
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