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Criminally under-discussed how much of modern software is skeuomorphic of 1970s corporate office life.

Cut, copy, paste. Files, folders, inbox, mail, trash can, desktop.

Criminally under-discussed how much of modern software is skeuomorphic of 1970s corporate office life.

Cut, copy, paste. Files, folders, inbox, mail, trash can, desktop. 

https://crm.org/articles/xerox-parc-and-the-origins-of-gui

If computers were first developed for personal use, folders would be drawers

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> Fun to think about what computing today would look like if it wasn't borne from math nerds and white-collar business guys.

Probably they would never exist. Gotta give them credits for actually making all this magic happen

Definitely believe operating systems would have embraced spatial metaphors earlier and been much more fluid.

Fun to think about what computing today would look like if it wasn't borne from math nerds and white-collar business guys.