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Prior to Apple, since the beginning of time, we have been using letters and symbols to write things down - for example, scrolls, books and even DOS.
Engelbart's work directly led to the advances at Xerox PARC. Several people went from SRI to Xerox PARC in the early 1970s. In 1973, Xerox PARC developed the Alto personal computer. It had a bitmapped screen, and was the first computer to demonstrate the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI). Wiki
So, there has been a rumor going around that Steve Jobs was given an alien artifact from the moon that he was to reverse-engineer and turn into a pictorial operating system, like Windows (which was basically stolen from Macintosh).
If you think about it, there are two new things that the electronic age has brought forward that are actually alien to human culture - instant networking without speaking and pictorial operating systems. Why would they suddenly show up now, unless we had gotten them from an external cultural source?
Prior to Apple, since the beginning of time, we have been using letters and symbols to write things down - for example, scrolls, books and even DOS. That was that old operating system with a black screen and orange letters, or something like that. I used it once.
darkbake
Okay, don't take this too seriously.
So, there has been a rumor going around that Steve Jobs was given an alien artifact from the moon that he was to reverse-engineer and turn into a pictorial operating system, like Windows (which was basically stolen from Macintosh).