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The history of the computer user interface is long and complex, but let’s boil it down to one pivotal moment: the arrival of the graphical user interface. Suddenly, we needed a way to move a pointer around the screen.
Which brings us to touchscreens. These were universally awful until capacitive panels came along, together with the software