[JasonFruit]

Honestly, I think there's some truth to that. If it weren't for the Macintosh, the WIMP approach to computing might never have become as dominant, and text-based systems might be more prevalent; I agree with the article's assertion that text-based programs are simpler to conceive and write.

[nsxwolf]

No one ever believes this when it's said, but it's true. WYSIWYG took a long time to catch on. Wordperfect for DOS was still pretty popular in 1995.

People just think it "makes sense" to work directly with various fonts and sizes when writing on a page, but that's actually pretty unnatural. No one ever worked that way before - you'd bang out a draft on a typewriter and hand it to a typesetter who would take care of that part.

It took at least a decade for people to really accept it in earnest.