What are your favorite examples in history of good user interfaces?

Question

Looking at the title of the recent Hacker News submission "Properly Displaying Ancient Interfaces"[0], I had thought it was going to talk about actually ancient (historically) user interfaces.Which got me wondering, what are some examples of ancient (historically) user interfaces that are very good?They don't have to be actually ancient, but I'm curious to hear about examples out there of thoughtful user design in inventions prior to computers. Are there other times in history where UX design was obsessed over like it is now?[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35183458

akasakahakada · Accepted Answer

I think maybe physical buttons. Pushing button is better than everything hidden behind nested menu on the screen.
For example low-end TV's menu is insanely laggy nowadays because of the limited processing power of on board chip. And useless transition animation add to the lagginess.
Chain restaurants in Japan upgraded their old school vendor machine to LCD screen counterpart, and they all suck.