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6th October 2006:
two articles about Xerox: “Xerox xooms toward the office of the future” and “The lab that ran away from Xerox”, and a funny essay about... the cow metaphor

5th October 2006:
new ads of GeoWorks Pro, OPEN LOOK, Microsoft Mouse Pad and Newton
11 new ads of Mac OS 7.0, 7.5 and 8.0
better version of Apple’s anti-Windows 95 ad

2nd October 2006:
all 26 pages of Seybold report “Apple’s Lisa: A personal office system”
vintage mega-reviews of Lisa – “New from Apple: Lisa and the IIe” and “Lisa – Close up and personal” (with thanks to Bruce Damer)
smaller reviews – “Lisa’s debut” and “Apple’s new computers: A major breakthrough”
an article about new generation of computing exemplified by Lisa and interview with Lisa’s creators
articles on Lisa in business use: “How Apple presents Lisa” and “Accounting for Lisa and the future”
a 15-minute promotional video of Lisa (with thanks to Adam Bravo)
better scans of Lisa ads: “Introducing Lisa”, trashcan and Maserati
new photos of Lisa 1

1st October 2006:
splashes from Acrobat 3D, Acrobat 3D Toolkit, ClarisWorks, Director, Entourage, Eudora, FileMaker, Fireworks, Flash, FreeHand, InCopy, Money, Money Essentials, NetObjects Fusion, Notes, Opera, PageMaker, Painter Essentials, Photoshop Lightroom and Quark XPress (with thanks to Jesús A. Álvarez, Theodore La Barba, Luar, Olivier-Bernard Richard, Steven Troughton-Smith and Christian Zimmermann)

17th June 2006:
vintage ad with Bill gates promoting Tandy 2000 and Windows 1.0 and two GUI-themed ads from Apple (with thanks to jupiter2)
Steven Levy’s article on Douglas Engelbart and the invention of mouse
splashes from 3ds max, Access, Excel, Illustrator, InfoPath, Outlook, Paint Shop Pro, PowerPoint, Publisher, Quark XPress, Word and Works (with thanks to Daniel Clemens, gonzalito, Diego López Medina, Gary Perlman, Alexander Sokolov and Colin Stuart)

11th June 2006:
VisiOn articles – A visual counterpart of the top of your desk and VisiCorp’s VisiOn – plus new ads of VisiOn and VisiWord
a vintage article about GEM and another ad of Pinball Construction Set

19th February 2006:
an advertisement of Pinball Construction Set, possibly the first popular GUI-driven application (with thanks to Bruce Damer)
a strange article about VisiCorp and Visi On (with thanks to Bruce Damer)
an advertisement of Windows Server 2003

18th February 2006:
screenshots from IRIX 5.3 (with thanks to Ian Young)
screenshots from EPOC/16 on Psion Series 3a, EPOC/16 on Psion Siena, EPOC R5 on Psion Revo (with thanks to Daniel Beardsmore) and EPOC R5 on Psion Series 7
a brochure of Psion MC series notebooks
rudimentary information about EPOC/Symbian OS
splashes from 3D Mark, After Effects, Audition, ClarisWorks, CorelDRAW, Corel Photo-Paint, Director, Encore DVD, FileMaker, ICQ, Mathematica, Painter, Painter Essentials, Photoshop Album, Premiere, Premiere Elements, Presentations, Quattro Pro, Shake, Visual Studio, WordPerfect and Works (with thanks to Daniel Beardsmore, Daniel Clemens and Gerardo Rodríguez Garro)

8th February 2006:
splashes from CorelDRAW, Dreamweaver, FineReader, Fireworks, Flash, Fontographer, Maya, Nero Burning ROM, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Quark XPress and Visual Basic (with thanks to Kai Uwe Broulik, Kroc Camen, John Chlumsky, Daniel Clemens, Murat Feyzifar, David Hayman, Peter Kuckenburg, Arthur Padua and vhrc)

4th February 2006:
more than 60 new ads of Mac OS (7.5, 8.0 and 8.5), Microsoft Bob, Newton (1.0, 2.0 and 2.1), Windows (95, NT 4.0, 98, 2000 and various editions of XP) and Windows CE (1.0, 2.0 and 3.0)
rudimentary information about Windows CE/Mobile

7th October 2005:
information about the books The icon book, Interface culture and Visual interface design for Windows (with thanks to Christopher Ong)
rudimentary information about Packard Bell Navigator

6th October 2005:
new tutorial section with 1400 screenshots of tutorials to 10 different GUIs (with thanks to Gianluca Abbiati, Josh Dersch, ddrmaxromance, knifethrower, Dylan McDermond and Eric Rasmussen)

5th October 2005:
comparison of 7 versions of iTunes (with thanks to ddrmaxromance and Lucy Gunawan)

13th September 2005:
splashes from AppleWorks and ClarisWorks, CorelDRAW, Corel Photo-Paint, Internet Explorer, Paint Shop Pro and WordPerfect (with thanks to darwinuser, David Hayman and i386DX)

31st August 2005:
slideshows presenting Microsoft Home Mouse and Microsoft Mouse 2.0, and a video ad of Apple Pro Mouse

25th August 2005:
a great vintage article about early GUIs
a review of Magic Cap and a first Magic Cap device

24th August 2005:
five vintage articles: about Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad, two reviews of Windows 1.0 (from 1985 and 1986), a review of Magic Cap and a critique of GUIs
two seminal articles: about Xerox Alto and Xerox Star

16th August 2005:
a new server and a new address, www.guidebookgallery.org. A big thank you to LeanWebHosting Link points to external site for generously hosting the website!
interview with John Gruber about the Mac OS X interface

6th August 2005:
screenshots from Mac OS X Developer Preview and Mac OS X Developer Preview 3

5th August 2005:
screenshots from Mac OS X Developer Preview 4

4th August 2005:
screenshots from Mac OS X Public Beta

3rd August 2005:
new ads of Mac OS X Tiger, OS/2, Windows XP and Contour Microsoft Mouse
splashes from Acrobat, After Effects, FreeHand, Money, Quark XPress, Visio and WordPerfect (with thanks to Vadik Egorov, Trev Henderson, Jason Rickerby and Jacob Tekiela)

17th July 2005:
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4th July 2005:
new application section with almost 1000 screenshots from Adobe Photoshop
splashes from 3D Mark, Acrobat Reader, After Effects, Director, FileMaker, Illustrator, MATLAB, Money, Pagemaker, Paint Shop Pro, Publisher, Visual Studio, Works and xRes (with thanks to Constance, Vadik Egorov, Hidden Hunter, Jason Rickerby and Jacob Tekiela)

25th June 2005:
an overhaul of site structure, with better integration between different parts of the site
new information about Apollo, Common Desktop Environment, GEM, GNOME, KDE, Magic Cap, Microsoft Bob, Newton OS, NewWave, oNLine System, OPEN LOOK, PenPoint, Sketchpad, TOS, Xerox and X Window System GUIs
four vintage articles about Common Desktop Environment, OPEN LOOK and X Window System
new indexes
new timelines
new links
new quotes and trivia

12th June 2005:
new timelines

11th June 2005:
new quotes

6th June 2005:
new links

1st June 2005:
new video and transcript of Apple Newton promotional videocassette

26th May 2005:
reviews of the books Bootstrapping, Defying gravity and Insanely great

21st May 2005:
new splashes from AppleWorks and ClarisWorks, GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign, Internet Explorer, Logic, Netscape, Painter and Publisher (with thanks to Reinaldo Aguilera, Jonathan Belanger and vNews Information Service)

17th May 2005:
icons from Mac OS X 10.0, 10.1 and 10.4

16th May 2005:
screenshots from Mac OS X 10.0

11th May 2005:
new splashes from 1-2-3, Acrobat, Acrobat Distiller, Acrobat Reader, CorelDRAW, FreeHand, Illustrator, ImageReady, Netscape, PageMaker, Painter, Photoshop, Quark XPress, Streamline and Trace (with thanks to Reinaldo Aguilera)

5th May 2005:
new video and transcript from Apple Lisa demonstration at CHI 98 (with thanks to Frank Ludolph)
new splashes from Flash, Premiere, Premiere Elements, Publisher, Quattro Pro, Visual Basic, Visual Web Developer and WordPerfect (with thanks to Reinaldo Aguilera, Kai Uwe Broulik and Maurice Wahba)

20th April 2005:
new experimental RSS feed (please comment if it doesn’t work as expected)
new splashes from CorelDRAW, FreeHand, Illustrator, Outlook Express and Visio (with thanks to Reinaldo Aguilera)
(2813 pictures, 664 icons/pointers, 56 interfaces, 13 families, 60 articles, 62 ads, 36 taglines, 56 sounds, 284 splashes, 10 books, 28 trivia, 11 quotes)

16th April 2005:
1963’s article about Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad
new splashes from Acrobat Reader, Money, Netscape, Quattro Pro, VMware Workstation and WordPerfect (with thanks to Reinaldo Aguilera)

15th April 2005:
new splashes from Acrobat, Acrobat Distiller, After Effects, FreeHand, Flash, GoLive, Money, Outlook, PowerDVD and Quark XPress (with thanks to Reinaldo Aguilera, Jonathan Belanger, Tom Dolbilin, Vadik Egorov, Haibl, David Hayman, Steven Troughton-Smith and Maurice Wahba)

15th March 2005:
new splashes from 3ds max and Quark XPress (with thanks to Cadence and Helmut Schug)

26th February 2005:
eight new ads: GEM, System 7 and Windows
promotional Windows 95 materials: interactive demo, banners and 4-page magazine ad

22nd February 2005:
three new ads of Windows 1.0 and 2.0

21st February 2005:
updated Apple Lisa spotlight: Lisa 2 photos and new secrets

20th February 2005:
interview with Nathan Lineback

17th February 2005:
a vintage article describing the original Macintosh mouse (with thanks to Douglas P. McNutt and Katherine L. Harras)

12th February 2005:
a vintage article describing Macintosh desktop (with thanks to Douglas P. McNutt and Katherine L. Harras)

30th January 2005:
a couple of photos of GUIs in real life (with thanks to Thomas Stromberg and Marc Zeedar)
splashes from Corel Presentations, FreeHand, Outlook, and Visual Basic (with thanks to Ian Kelleigh, Kai Uwe Broulik, Scoops and Yannick De smet)

22nd January 2005:
big Apple Lisa spotlight with a lot of unique information
initial set of quotes
(2813 pictures, 659 icons/pointers, 56 interfaces, 13 families, 55 articles, 51 ads, 29 taglines, 56 sounds, 248 splashes, 10 books, 27 trivia, 11 quotes)

24th December 2004:
five new ads of Microsoft’s first mice

21st December 2004:
screenshots from Apple II DeskTop 1.1, GS/OS 5.0.4 and GS/OS 6.0.1
mouse pointers from GS/OS 6.0.1
mini-review of the GUI bloopers book

20th December 2004:
vintage reviews of NewWave 1.0 and Windows 1.0
another advertisement of first Microsoft Mouse
splashes from Quattro Pro and WordPerfect

19th December 2004:
two Australian advertisements of Windows XP (with thanks to Dashiell Dunn)

17th December 2004:
a review of NewWave 4.0 and an advertisement of NewWave 3.0
splashes from Quattro Pro, Word and WordPerfect

14th December 2004:
a review of NewWave 3.0 and an advertisement of NewWave
three vintage essays: “New interface dilemmas”, “Sorting out fact from fiction” and “The riddle of the right mouse button”

13th December 2004:
initial set of trivia (with thanks to Jan Mueller and zillalust)
two vintage essays: “Making good GUI sense” and “Time for a new interface”
(version 0.9.13, 2675 pictures, 651 icons/pointers, 51 interfaces, 11 families, 30 articles, 32 ads, 28 taglines, 56 sounds, 231 splashes, 7 books, 22 trivia)

12th December 2004:
six vintage essays: “A drastic change in direction”, “Beyond Windows 95”, “Is Bob really a kidsworld?”, “The myth of the interface”, “Win 95 vs. OS/2: Some thoughts” and “Windows 95 is far from Chicago”
splashes from Acrobat Reader, Illustrator (with thanks to Darren) and Photoshop Elements

4th April 2004:
splashes from Acrobat Distiller (with thanks to Dave), Excel, Illustrator, PowerPoint and Quark XPress

25th October 2004:
two articles about GUI theory

24th October 2004:
five new Xerox ads
splashes from Access, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio and Visual Basic (with thanks to Scoops, Kai Uwe Broulik and Kroc Camen)
(version 0.9.12, 2656 pictures, 651 icons/pointers, 51 interfaces, 11 families, 20 articles, 32 ads, 28 taglines, 56 sounds, 221 splashes, 7 books)

10th October 2004:
preliminary documents and folders icon chart

9th October 2004:
preliminary mouse pointers chart

8th October 2004:
vintage articles about Mac OS and GEM

4th October 2004:
two new posters

20th September 2004:
two more Xerox Star-related articles

18th September 2004:
article about designing Xerox Star interface
iMac booklet (incl. information about Mac OS X)

14th September 2004:
review of Designing Visual Interfaces

12th September 2004:
icons from Rhapsody DR2
new old article about evolution of icons
splashes from Word and Visual Basic (with thanks to Kai Uwe Broulik)

11th September 2004:
reviews of books The GUI Guide and The Power of PenPoint (incl. excerpts of the latter)
icons from Mac OS 9
(version 0.9.11, 2644 pictures, 534 icons, 51 interfaces, 11 families, 13 articles, 26 ads, 28 taglines, 56 sounds, 193 splashes, 6 books)

10th September 2004:
Windows 2.0 ad, OS/2 Warp Connect ad, Microsoft Mouse ad and three Apple interaction ads

5th September 2004:
colour selector dialog component
preliminary set of screenshots from Mac OS X Developer Preview 2 (with thanks to Steven Troughton-Smith)
(2638 pictures, 512 icons, 51 interfaces, 11 families, 13 articles, 20 ads, 28 taglines, 56 sounds, 193 splashes, 4 books)

2nd September 2004:
ads of OS/2 2.0 and OS/2 Warp Connect

1st September 2004:
two advertisements of OS/2 2.0

31st August 2004:
Mac OS 7.6 and Rhapsody ads (with thanks to jupiter2)

30th August 2004:
three new Windows 95 ads
slideshows from OS/2 2.0 and OS/2 Warp 3
splash from Norton Utilities

29th August 2004:
two more Windows XP Tablet PC ads and vintage Windows 1.0 slides

21st August 2004:
another vintage article on Windows 1.0
splashes from Excel and PowerDVD (with thanks to Joao Sena Ribeiro)

28th July 2004:
unique commentary to 1983’s article on Microsoft Windows 1.0, courtesy of author, Phil Lemmons
three vintage articles: A Guided Tour of Visi On, Visi On’s Interface Design and The Visi On™ Experience

24th July 2004:
a very interesting article by Tony Kavadias about user interfaces on Apple II
splashes from CorelDRAW (with thanks to ivazquez), Excel, PowerPoint and Word

13th July 2004:
splashes from Excel, PowerPoint and Word

12th July 2004:
screenshots from Mac OS 9
splashes from Excel, Internet Explorer, Outlook (with thanks to Kroc Camen), Outlook Express, PowerPoint and Word
(2541 pictures, 512 icons, 50 interfaces, 11 families, 9 articles, 9 ads, 28 taglines, 56 sounds, 181 splashes, 4 books)

4th July 2004:
splashes from Excel, Outlook Express, PowerPoint and Word
contributions and donations information

1st July 2004:
screenshots from Mac OS X 10.1
splashes from 3ds max (with thanks to Benjamin Stephan), Excel, GoLive (with thanks to Rupert Maurer), Internet Explorer, Lotus 1-2-3, Macromedia Flash and Word
(2454 pictures, 512 icons, 49 interfaces, 11 families, 9 articles, 9 ads, 27 taglines, 56 sounds, 171 splashes, 4 books)

6th June 2004:
screenshots from ArthurOS 1.2, RISC OS 3.11 and RISC OS 3.7
vintage articles about pre-1.0 release of Microsoft Windows, 1989’s GUIs and problems with Macintosh interface
preliminary book section with reviews and excerpts
preliminary interface grid (aka “gray, blue and teal”)
(2354 pictures, 512 icons, 48 interfaces, 11 families, 9 articles, 9 ads, 27 taglines, 56 sounds, 154 splashes, 4 books)

29th May 2004:
new splashes from 3ds max, CorelDRAW, Corel Photo-Paint, Money, Netscape, Norton Utilities and VMware Workstation
sounds from Windows NT 4.0
(2279 pictures, 512 icons, 45 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 9 ads, 27 taglines, 56 sounds, 154 splashes)

24th May 2004:
new magazine ads
new splashes from Netscape (with thanks to Kroc Camen)
(2279 pictures, 512 icons, 45 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 9 ads, 27 taglines, 48 sounds, 139 splashes)

23rd May 2004:
first GUI timetable
(2279 pictures, 512 icons, 45 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 27 taglines, 48 sounds, 133 splashes)

21st May 2004:
screenshots from Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
preliminary sound collection
(2279 pictures, 512 icons, 45 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 25 taglines, 48 sounds, 133 splashes)

19th May 2004:
splashes from 3DMark (with thanks to Kroc Camen), Adobe Acrobat Reader, ICQ, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Money, Netscape, Quark XPress and Microsoft Word
(2175 pictures, 512 icons, 44 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 25 taglines, 133 splashes)

16th May 2004:
screenshots from Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (with enormous thanks to Jonathan Westin)
splashes from 3ds max (with thanks to Kroc Camen), Adobe LiveMotion and Microsoft Money
(2175 pictures, 512 icons, 44 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 25 taglines, 115 splashes)

8th May 2004:
new application splash screen collection
(2067 pictures, 509 icons, 43 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 25 taglines, 108 splashes)

14th April 2004:
icons from Apple Lisa 7/7 Office System
(2067 pictures, 509 icons, 43 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 25 taglines)

5th April 2004:
icons from Red Hat Linux 9 (with thanks to Steve Lacy)
(2067 pictures, 497 icons, 43 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 25 taglines)

4th April 2004:
screenshots from Red Hat Linux 9
(2067 pictures, 451 icons, 43 interfaces, 10 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 25 taglines)

2nd April 2004:
new icons from Mac OS X Panther
nicer icons from Mac OS X Jaguar
(1973 pictures, 451 icons, 42 interfaces, 9 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 20 taglines)

27th March 2004:
scans of magazine ads
preliminary list of marketing taglines
(1973 pictures, 442 icons, 42 interfaces, 9 families, 6 articles, 6 ads, 20 taglines)

21st March 2004:
icons and screenshots from GEOS V2.0 for Commodore 64, GEOS V2.1 for Apple II, GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0, New Deal Office R3 Evaluation and Breadbox Ensemble Lite
icons and screenshots from QNX Momentics 6.2.1 Non-Commercial
(1973 pictures, 442 icons, 42 interfaces, 9 families, 6 articles)

20th March 2004:
new Mac posters

1st February 2004:
screenshots from Whistler 2257 (internal alpha of Windows XP)
(1718 pictures, 374 icons, 36 interfaces, 7 families, 6 articles)

12th December 2003:
icons from Mac OS X Jaguar 10.2.8, as well as an option panel to icon charts
(1614 pictures, 374 icons, 35 interfaces, 7 families, 6 articles)

15th November 2003:
six historical GUI articles
(1614 pictures, 343 icons, 35 interfaces, 7 families, 6 articles)

8th September 2003:
screenshots and links for Amiga’s Workbench 1.0 and Workbench 2.04
featured interfaces, featured components and featured icons archives
(1614 pictures, 343 icons, 35 interfaces, 7 families)

4th September 2003:
screenshots and links for OPENSTEP 4.2 and Rhapsody DR2
(1576 pictures, 343 icons, 33 interfaces, 6 families)

28th August 2003:
completely new look and feel
new links to GUI-related websites
(approx. 1460 pictures, 343 icons, 31 interfaces, 5 families)

12th August 2003:
screenshots and icons from Macintosh System 4.2
(approx. 1460 pictures, 343 icons, 31 interfaces, 5 families)

11th August 2003:
screenshots and icons from OS/2 Warp 4
new drives/devices icon chart
(approx. 1430 pictures, 337 icons, 30 interfaces, 5 families)

8th August 2003:
screenshots and icons from OS/2 Warp 3
new information about the site
(approx. 1360 pictures, 257 icons, 29 interfaces, 5 families)

7th August 2003:
new application icon chart
icons from Windows 1.01, Windows 2.03, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional
(approx. 1300 pictures, 230 icons, 28 interfaces, 5 families)

6th August 2003:
screenshots and icons from Solaris 9
new unique posters
(approx. 1300 pictures, 191 icons, 28 interfaces, 5 families)

4th August 2003:
screenshots from Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Windows NT 4.0 Server
short descriptions of some GUIs and interface names
(approx. 1240 pictures, 164 icons, 27 interfaces, 4 families)

21st May 2003:
screenshots from Windows NT 3.51 Workstation, Windows Server 2003 Web Edition and Longhorn build 4015
(approx. 1150 pictures, 164 icons, 25 interfaces, 4 families)

30th April 2003:
screenshots and icons from OS/2 2.1
icons from Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.1
(approx. 980 pictures, 164 icons, 22 interfaces, 4 families)

26th April 2003:
power management settings, licence agreement and wrong password sections
screenshots from the first version of Windows 95
icons from Windows 3.0
(approx. 910 pictures, 128 icons, 21 interfaces, 4 families)

25th April 2003:
links to interesting websites
icons from Windows XP Professional and Microsoft OS/2 1.30.1
(approx. 850 pictures, 118 icons, 20 interfaces, 4 families)

24th April 2003:
screenshots from Macintosh System 3
(approx. 850 pictures, 88 icons, 20 interfaces, 4 families)

21st April 2003:
site launched
(approx. 840 pictures, 86 icons, 19 interfaces, 4 families)

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