Evolution of the scroll bar - photo

**Altair** · Mar 2, 2023, 08:14 AM

Evolution of the scroll bar.

Previously:

Windows installation diskettes - photos
The first GIF image - GIF
Sending and receiving emails in the 1980s - photo
Taking screenshots in the 1980s - photo
1973 ARPA network map - photo

**mccwho** · Mar 2, 2023, 04:23 PM

Forgot OS X and some Unix variants.

**nova_robotics** · Mar 2, 2023, 06:28 PM

This is what Linux looked like in 2010. No viruses. And it's free. And nobody uses it.

**mccwho** · Mar 2, 2023, 07:26 PM

Yep, I remember those 3D desktops, They were cool but really took a fair amount of resources to run.

**nova_robotics** · Mar 2, 2023, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by mccwho

Yep, I remember those 3D desktops, They were cool but really took a fair amount of resources to run.

Yeah, not super useful either. It was a neat party trick though. Right now between my home and shop I probably have about 50+ Linux machines. I design robots and other odds and ends and it all runs Linux. It is spectacular operating system.

Funny story, my mother used to mess up her laptop about once a week. I installed Linux and didn't tell her. It was YEARS of that thing just working flawlessly and she didn't even notice she wasn't on Windows anymore.

**ductape** · Mar 3, 2023, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by nova_robotics

Yeah, not super useful either. It was a neat party trick though. Right now between my home and shop I probably have about 50+ Linux machines. I design robots and other odds and ends and it all runs Linux. It is spectacular operating system.

Funny story, my mother used to mess up her laptop about once a week. I installed Linux and didn't tell her. It was YEARS of that thing just working flawlessly and she didn't even notice she wasn't on Windows anymore.

I had a similar experience with my parents that you had with your mother and did the same thing to fix it. It worked and that's that.