History of the GUI

The first Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) theorist was Vannevar Bush, a War Scientist who worked at MIT (Massachusets Institute of Technology) during World War II. In 1945 he published the article "As We May Think" 4 in a magazine, in which he describes his vision of an information-administration tool, the Memex. The concept envisions a hypermedia system in which data is stored on microfilm and made accessible, linkable and programmable.