sea-shore
Compromises where made, quick-fixes on quick-fixes made text interfaces just usable enough, sunk costs grew and habits formed. The visual programming I see in game-engines now are carrying those habits with it, because to build a language of nodes you first have to learn the ways of ASCII code.
And from what I understand, hardware is optimised for what ever software is popular enough to sell, so even if the software changed, the hardware would take longer. It takes an awesome goal to justify starting over on a truly visual interaction path when there is a system that almost, kinda works. And what-ifs are not in budget.
Paraphrased from wikipedia on the term fairy tale - is mainly used for stories with origins in European tradition, originally meaning a little story from a long time ago when the world was still magic. Tales were told or enacted dramatically, rather than written down, and handed down from generation to generation.
Wikipedia on Paris - The Parisii inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC. This meeting place of land and water trade routes gradually became an important trading centre. The Parisii traded with many river towns and minted their own coins for that purpose. During the 17th century, Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister of Louis XIII, was determined to make Paris the most beautiful city in Europe.
And from this post - Costly confusion, the triumphant vulgarity, the awful materialism that we are going to pass on to our descendants. ... Thousands of people were forced from their homes to make way for luxury buildings that the former tenants would not be able to afford. The overcrowding turned Paris into an “immense workshop of putrefaction, where misery, the plague, and disease work together in harmony,”. One way to successfully quell rebellion then was to to insulate the rich from the poor. The social ills that helped motivate the 1848 revolution did not disappear with the renovation of Paris and the subsequent restructuring of its social life. They may have even been made worse by the stratification of urban life,
Perhaps disable the network or pointing device?
(Dedicated hardware per task, even for myself, is slowly winning me over)