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Windows, and Icons, and Mice! Oh, my!
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IBM: Icons Bygones My Mom'
Brief History Of Linux (#4) Walls & Windows Most people don't realize that many of the technological innovations taken for granted in the 20th Century date back centuries ago.
The concept of a network "firewall", for instance, is a product of the Great Wall of China, a crude attempt to keep raging forest fires out of Chinese territory....
XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ n. The famed Palo Alto Research Center.
For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreaking hardware and software innovations....
XEROX PARC: /zee'roks park'/ The famed Palo Alto Research Center.
For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreaking hardware and software innovations....
BMW Break My Window
MASOCHIST (mas-oh-kist) noun: Windows user.
But Windows bashing is my job...my only job.
point-and-drool interface n. Parody of the techspeak term `point-and-shoot interface', describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh.
The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots....
point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term `point-and-shoot interface', describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh.
The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots....