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Can you summarize what those things might be? (That haven't reached mainstream use)
by ludamad 10y ago
Can you summarize what those things might be? (That haven't reached mainstream use)
- infinite8s 10y agoHere are 2 that he often brings up: Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad demo - Object oriented graphics using a constraint based system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o) Douglas Englebart's demo - too many innovations to list, but includes real time collaboration (he demoed in a convention center while the system ran 30 miles away in his lab, connected by a leased line operating at 1200 baud!). People think he just invented the mouse, but the overarching theme in his work was augmenting human capabilities... http://dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html http://dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html
- tamana 10y agoWhich of those things are not in mainstream use? We have Skype and Google Docs and AWS for collaboration and client/server computing.
- ethbro 10y agoI hadn't seen the Sketchpad, thanks for the link. One of the things that consistently impresses me about 1960s computing demos is the clarity of meaning and lack of jargon.