January 1984General sourceWell documented
The Macintosh mainstreams the GUI
On the timeline · around January 1984 ·
What happened
Apple's Macintosh brought the graphical interface — windows, icons, mouse — to a mass-market machine.
Why it matters
Computers stopped being command lines for specialists and became tools anyone could point at.
Sources
- Computer History Museum. Timeline of Computer History: 1984 · General source