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by seanmcdirmid 4859 days ago
When Alan Kay started grad school at Utah, he was handed a bunch of papers on SketchPad, which was done in 1963 :) So the dominoes started falling...SketchPad inspires both Smalltalk and GUI computing.
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aaronblohowiak 4859 days ago
Do you know of any modern attempts at SketchPad?
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lukego 4858 days ago
There is a Squeak-based faithful recreation of Sketchpad at around 12:30 in Alan Kay's talk here: http://amturing.acm.org/acm_tcc_webcasts.cfm.
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