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What came first? Apple’s trash or Windows’ recycle bin?

I always assumed the latter because it feels like a “we need to be different but throw a tiny bit of shade while we’re at it.”



To answer your specific question, Apple's Lisa was released on January 19, 1983. It had a waste basket. The Mac OS and its trash can debuted along with the original Macintosh computer on January 24, 1984. Windows introduced the recycle bin along with Windows 95 which was released on August 24, 1995.


Thanks! And yeah, it seems like this is part of the "ripping off Xerox" saga.

Now I'm curious what Microsoft did Between 1984 and 1995. Time to go boot up Windows 3.1.


i think the concept originated with lisa


Likely more with the Xerox stuff that Apple uhh... "improved upon"...

https://interface-experience.org/objects/xerox-star-8010-inf...


It wouldn't suprise me if that was the case


Xerox.




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