This is Not my Beautiful House: Examining the Desktop Metaphor, 1980 - 1995

2019

Editor's note: This online journal went down for a number of years so I preserved the article here to share with my students. The original website is now back online in another form.

Article on the history of the desktop metaphor, originally published for online journal Continent.

Hosted at Internet Archive

This is Not my Beautiful House: Examining the Desktop Metaphor, 1980-1995.

The primary research for this essay was completed with support of the Media Archaeology Lab as an on-site resident in January of 2019.

Continent

Issue 8.1-2 / 2019: 1