Authors:
Ramana Rao
Some time ago, the graphical user interface became known as the point & click interface. The point being simplicity. Point and click, anybody can do it, but point & click, point & click, point & click, all day long and you have ... Windows 95. It would be like calling the file cabinet a pull and grab device, but the file cabinet isn't a device for pulling and grabbing, but rather for storing information. Point and click, the mechanics, we're being dragged into the machine. The graphical interface is hardly graphical any more; it's become the mechanical, textual, reading…
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