Xerox PARC has been the inventor and incubator of many elements of modern computing in the contemporary office work place:
  • Laser printers,
  • Computer-generated bitmap graphics
  • The graphical user interface, featuring windows and icons, operated with a mouse
  • The WYSIWYG text editor
  • Interpress, a resolution-independent graphical page-description language and the precursor to PostScript
  • Ethernet as a local-area computer network
  • Fully formed object-oriented programming in the Smalltalk programming language and integrated development environment.
  • Model–view–controller software architecture