A modal, through the years
One small question, asked by computers for forty years. Hover the timeline to see how the box around it changed.
- 1984
- 1995
- 2001
- 2005
- 2007
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2025
- Now
1984 · MacintoshBlack and white, a double outline, and a heavy ring around the button you're most likely to press.
How it's made
Every drawing is plain HTML and CSS on this page: no screenshots, no images, no borrowed fonts. They're our impressions of each era, not pixel copies. Arrow keys move along the timeline too.