> 1. In the sixties and seventies, computing was largely > experimental. There were no penalties for trying > something different.
It's the natural evolution of everything. In the beginning trying different approaches is sane and has sense. But to make a graphical version of what is already there is not a experimental approach, it's just a trick to seduce dumb people which bad side effect has reasserted what MSWindows and Apple started. Today plain text is awful. To read and write is a painful outdated practice. Even to write your login password is painful. Now everybody wants icons. Thousands of years of evolution from pictograms to *modern* language all lost in a few decades! H. G. Wells thought it would happen in A.D 802,701. He's lucky to be dead. Another annoying approach is the monster that do everything with mediocre result. Not moved by the sane evolutionary experimental spirit you relate neither. Just to keep the cows tied.
