Why The No-Code Boom Is Critical Right Now
Some of the first personal computers available to the world were nothing like what we have access to today.
Instead, they looked something like this: a text-only interface with no user-friendly drag-and-drop option, and used mainly by universities for research.
Think of a glorified typewriter, but way more complicated to handle and not something you’d ever want to create with.
Then in 1984, the first GUI-based computer dubbed “Mac” was released to the public and considered a smashing success. As Adam Powell notes for Wired, not only were they billed as “insanely great.” they were also “relatively inexpensive and fantastically easy to use.”
The true potential of these machines, however, was that they possessed an attractive visual interface — making it radically easier to use. Suddenly, people didn’t need to type commands out anymore, which meant that “sales of home computers took off like a rocket,” Powell writes.
“Programs like MacPaint, which contained the seminal elements of Photoshop, the king of modern graphics editing programs, turned an entire generation of artists on to the possibilities of digital art.”
He adds: “Word processing was never easier. There was a shortage of software, but companies were eager to develop for the Mac, seeing…
