Cool thing of the day: a review (with pics) of the original Macintosh users' manual. Not just retro fun, but, as the author writes, an early look at how somebody explains what was at the time a huge paradigm shift in how people interacted with computers -- things that seem obvious now (or that you might explain with rather different metaphors) had to be spelled out in earnestly helpful prose. What's a desktop? What's scrolling? a mouse? Hard to remember we ever didn't know . . .
(via rc3.org)
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