{"id":48475,"date":"2025-07-14T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48475"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:43:45","slug":"lisagui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/14\/lisagui\/","title":{"rendered":"LisaGUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisagui.com\/info.html\">Andrew Yaros<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/08\/this-browser-based-apple-lisa-simulator-takes-you-back-to-1983\/\">Marcus Mendes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=44482965\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lisagui.com\/info.html\"><p>LisaGUI is a &ldquo;web OS&rdquo; - a website that mimics the look, feel, and functionality of an operating system. More bluntly, it&rsquo;s a giant JavaScript program which fully recreates the Apple Lisa&rsquo;s user interface from scratch (to the best of my ability). The Lisa was Apple&rsquo;s first computer with a graphical user interface (known as the Lisa Office System, or &ldquo;LOS&rdquo;).<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Aside from Gulp.js, which I use as a simple build tool to produce a minified JS file, no third party libraries or frameworks are utilized. LisaGUI contains no code from the Lisa Office System&rsquo;s source code (or any code written by Apple), and doesn&rsquo;t utilize any component of any emulator, like LisaEm or IDLE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/09\/the-macintosh-repository\/\">The Macintosh Repository<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/26\/infinite-mac\/\">Infinite Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Yaros (via Marcus Mendes, Hacker News): LisaGUI is a &ldquo;web OS&rdquo; - a website that mimics the look, feel, and functionality of an operating system. More bluntly, it&rsquo;s a giant JavaScript program which fully recreates the Apple Lisa&rsquo;s user interface from scratch (to the best of my ability). The Lisa was Apple&rsquo;s first computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-14T17:43:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"7c166ca5-3d05-404f-8bc5-fdfaec1c3777","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-14T17:43:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AfBZspT0FQE-Lxf367Bw3dw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,346,516,96],"class_list":["post-48475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-javascript","tag-lisa","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48476,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48475\/revisions\/48476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}