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Graphical User Interface

(GUI) pronounced gooey. a method of interacting with a
computer program by making use of graphics, icons, pop-up menus, windows,
a mouse and mouse pointer. To point to an object with a mouse cursor, click on
the object, and experience a result such as having a menu appear or to arrive at
a Web page is an example of graphical user interface. The basic technology
was developed by Xerox in the 1970s but the company could find few practical
applications for it. Macintosh adapted GUI as the foundation of the Apple
Macintosh in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until the early 1990s with the emergence
of Windows 3.0 that the technology really took off.