{"id":478,"date":"2009-10-23T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2009-10-23T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T20:01:00","slug":"gui-is-dead-long-live-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/gui-is-dead-long-live-ui\/","title":{"rendered":"GUI is Dead, Long Live UI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term GUI, Graphical User Interface, pronounced &#8220;Gooey&#8221; is laughably anachronistic.  All interfaces meant for <em>people<\/em> on modern computers are graphical. The right abbreviation to use today is simply UI, for User Interface, pronounced &#8220;You I&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, I understand that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.com\/faaborg\/2007\/07\/05\/the-graphical-keyboard-user-interface\/\">a command line interface is still useful today<\/a>. I use them. I&#8217;m a programmer. I <em>get<\/em> the whole UNIX thing. Even without <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pipeline_(Unix)\">a pipe<\/a>, a command-line is the highest-bandwidth <em>input<\/em> mechanism we have today.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>all command lines live <em>inside<\/em> a graphical OS<\/strong>. That&#8217;s how computers work in the 21st century.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/picture-6.png\" alt=\"Picture 6.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"525\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I see &#8220;GUI&#8221; written I can&#8217;t help but wonder if the author is dangerously out of touch. Do they still think <em>graphical<\/em> interfaces are a novelty that needs to be called out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term GUI, Graphical User Interface, pronounced &#8220;Gooey&#8221; is laughably anachronistic. All interfaces meant for people on modern computers are graphical. The right abbreviation to use today is simply UI, for User Interface, pronounced &#8220;You I&#8221;. Believe me, I understand that a command line interface is still useful today. I use them. I&#8217;m a programmer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,8],"tags":[86,170,517,236,516],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-programming","category-usability","tag-command-line","tag-diction","tag-personal-gripes","tag-terminal","tag-terminology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}