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by i_am_ralpht 4256 days ago
Funny how everyone was doing the General Magic-style UI (where you had to navigate down the street to the post office to send email) back then.
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That and the incredible role of sound in the UI, so annoying for today's standards. It seems they were communicating to the users of consoles and arcade machines.

Maybe both techniques were inevitable at that stage of the general public training to technology. Both were abandoned a few years later when Windows 95 and then the web made the PC really mainstream. Their language was totally different and we all got used to it quickly.