Room 101 has a very cool post that shows the evolution of the computer desktop, starting with the Macintosh System 1 in 1984 and Windows 1.0 in 1985 all the way through Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows Vista.
You can click the images for larger images.
This post combined with the even better Graphical User Interface Gallery is a pretty comprehensive reference.
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