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by youpassbutter 2985 days ago
The icons made the mac revolutionary? What a ridiculous exaggeration. The icons were an improvement over the "textual" xerox icons but it wasn't what made the mac revolutionary.
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I agree. People had been doing bitmapped icons at least since the 70's. The Xerox Star (which the Mac copied) used them, too. The Mac's icons were good but were evolutionary, not revolutionary.