Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963
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A TV show about Ivan Sutherland's 1963 MIT thesis software Sketchpad, which ran on the TX-2 computer. It shows a light pen drawing, constraints, snapping, scaling and object-style graphics, foundations of GUIs and CAD.
Why HN recommends it: HN returns to it as a striking demonstration that core GUI, CAD and constraint-programming ideas existed in the 1960s.
“It blows me away that this kind of UI was even conceived in the 1960s.” Read on HN ↗