Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad

Alan Kay presenting Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad, one of most influencial programs in the history of graphical user interfaces. Sutherland developed Sketchpad in 1963. This video was extracted taken from a longer one in http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987.
You can learn more about the Sketchpad project here: http://blogs.ua.es/domingo/2007/07/09/sketchpad/ (in Spanish).

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[Volatus]

I have absolutely got to see the physical hardware this was done on.

Stunning.

[asudiarto]

And we still can't have copy and paste on the iPhone.

[EquinoxParadox91]

Just insane to think that this technology was happening 50 years ago.

[MrLegendman3]

@calaverius three years later and Photoshop CS5 still doesnt

[discobob59841]

Sorry to burst all your bubbles. Photoshop may not have these features, but any major CAD software since the 70's does. It was definitely groundbreaking for its time, but Photoshop is NOT CAD software, so stop comparing the two.

[conspiritor2]

Is this world's first touchscreen?

[TMTKowalski]

Awesome. Adobe implemented freaking Eraser Tool in Illustrator CS as far as I can remember. Maybe in some CS34 we will see something like Spiro in Inkscape. They resell Illustrator over and over again without any significant changes. Damn, people had brains back in the days.

[DevilMaster]

@Volatus Search "BRL61-0626.jpg" on Google Images. Select the first image. That (all of it) is the physical hardware.

[HHGFHJGFHJGFJTYFJDGY]

Google SketchUp in 1962!

[DevilMaster]

@Volatus The physical hardware that was running Sketchpad:

ed-thelen*org/comp-hist/BRL61-­0626*jpg

(replace asterisks with dots)

[Sweenaba]

I wonder where humanity would be right now if we invested our technology into things like this instead of nukes or Agent Orange.

[carlitoxxe]

Tell me this is a fake because my head its about to explode.

What a genius!