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seanmcdirmid on Feb 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Deep Insights of Alan Kay

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.

aaronblohowiak on Feb 28, 2013 [–]

Do you know of any modern attempts at SketchPad?

lukego on Feb 28, 2013 | [–]

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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