The basis for GUI interface are introduced and Apple launch a new operating system. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.
1963 – The Sketchpad is introduced
Ivan Sutherland introduces the Sketchpad, one of the earliest applications for the TX-0, as a part of his Ph.D. thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ivan developed the Sketchpad to allow the direct manipulation of objects on a computer screen to create and manipulate graphics with a light pen. Sutherland’s thesis will become the basis of many future graphical user interfaces (GUI).
1997 – Apple launch a new Operating System 
Both Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak appear at the MacWorld Conference for the first time since 1984 to announce Apple’s plans to release an operating system code-named Rhapsody in 1998. This new operating system will run Java applications, current Mac applications, and Next OS applications.
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