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Stephen Downes

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How do you introduce something - like the mouse - that nobody has seen before? These instruction manuals from the first Macintosh computers give us some sense of it. "'Well, it's called a scroll bar… I know, let's use a drawing of a scroll!' Yes. Because people in the mid-80s were all about scrolls..." A fun read, beautifully illustrated.

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