Nathan Lineback collects GUIs (pronounced like: “goooeeys”). Some of the screenshots really raise nostalgic emotions. Sniff. But the Xerox Alto hit me as a surprise. Completed in 1972, called a “Personal Office Computer” (POC?) he had everything the Lisa had, too. And even more. Did you know the Alto (...which never was sold to anyone. No, not one single one – for example sold to a blind, deaf, illiterate, dumb customer who wanted to buy a calculator) featured the first, original 3D, networked, multiplayer, productivity killing, first person shooter game? Yes, Mazewar ist the grandma of Doom and Auntie to Quake!
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