Signification of Icons in a Computer GUI

Meaning of computer GUI icons In 1867, Charles Pierce said in his paper "New Category List" that there are three kinds of signs: icons, indexes, and symbols. According to Thomas Sebeok, "The symbol is considered a landmark if there is topological similarity between the symbol and its direction." In that case, the icon is similar to the object they represent. The similarity of icons and objects is basically the reason for distinguishing icons from the other two icons.

This week marks the 33rd anniversary of Apple Macintosh. This is the first computer that made publicly available the graphical user interface (GUI). A stylish and intuitive system takes us from command line and code to cursor and icon. It gives the computer what the iPhone does for the phone - in general, we never look back. Steve Jobs saw the future of personal computing when I saw the first prototype graphical user interface in Xerox PARC Labs but some saw the wave of mangaization when I saw the Macintosh. They think that it can not compete with the seriousness of computer terminals. It looks like a ridiculous novelty and a picture rather than a text. What is the point?

People think that the graphical user interface is a real problem when the Mac was announced 33 years ago.

The first home computer with a GUI, or the graphical user interface - an interface that allows the user to interact with visual icons - is Apple Lisa. The first graphical interface was developed by Palm Alto Research Center (PARC) by Xerox in the 1970's. Steve Jobs visited PARC after purchasing Xerox shares in 1979 and was impressed with Xerox Alto, the first computer with a graphical user interface. But this machine is very big. Jobs has adopted the technology of Apple Lisa which is a small computer that can be installed on the desktop.

Apple Computer follows Apple II and Apple Lisa followed by the Apple Macintosh. These computers are unique for the graphical user interface (GUI) which introduced icons, windows, drop-down menus, and mouse concepts. (The GUI concept was actually born from Xerox via two Xerox computers, Xerox Star and Xerox Alto.) Apple was later sued by Xerox, but Xeox lost the lawsuit because the Macintosh GUI is different from the Xerox Star GUI and therefore does not conform to the same GUI. The original Macintosh was $ 4,000, using a Motorola 68000 CPU with a 128 K RAM and a 400 K 3.5 inch floppy drive and a 9 inch black and white display. It did not sell too much, Steve Jobs was fired by Apple and got the key to work with him to create Next Inc., Nextcube and Next OS based on BSD Unix and MACH kernel. So PowerMacs runs Classic Macintosh software.