Xerox PARC Visit

Steve Jobs and several Apple engineers visited Xerox PARC, where they were shown the Alto computer featuring a graphical user interface (GUI), mouse, and object-oriented programming. Jobs famously called it a 'revelation'.

Significance

This visit profoundly influenced Jobs and the future direction of Apple, directly leading to the development of the Lisa and Macintosh GUIs. It cemented the idea that a user-friendly graphical interface was the future of computing.