Xerox PARC Visit by Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs and other Apple engineers visited Xerox PARC, witnessing groundbreaking technologies like the graphical user interface, Ethernet, and object-oriented programming. This visit profoundly influenced the direction of the Lisa and Macintosh projects.
Significance
This visit was a catalytic moment, providing Apple with the inspiration and confirmation of the potential of GUIs, which directly led to the development of Lisa and Macintosh, and by extension, MacPaint's visual paradigm.
Key facts
- Date
- 1979-12-09
- Type
- milestone
- Location
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, California