"Despite its age, using it feels so familiar and natural that it’s sometimes difficult to appreciate just how extraordinary, how different it was when it first appeared.

I’m talking about the Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973 [...] The reason it is so uncannily familiar today is simple: We are now living in a world of computing that the Alto created."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

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