PARC

The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) officially opens its doors at 3180 Porter Drive in Palo Alto, California on July 1, 1970. The center's mission is to research and create "the architecture of information." The center's most notable development, among others, is the WIMP (windows, icons, menus and pointers) paradigm, which spawns the Macintosh, OS/2, and Windows graphical user interfaces.
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