{"id":525,"date":"2009-08-22T14:56:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T21:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/?p=525"},"modified":"2013-11-08T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:04:43","slug":"ivan-sutherlands-sketchpad-know-your-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/ivan-sutherlands-sketchpad-know-your-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Sutherland&#8217;s Sketchpad : know your history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rongeorge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sketchpad.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-526\" title=\"sketchpad\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rongeorge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sketchpad.jpg\" alt=\"sketchpad\" \/><\/a>One of the main thought threads going through work and through design as a whole is to know your history. Things have been designed, created, used, and not used over the years. It is of being a good scholar and being a good designer, to know your history. Give credit where it is due.<\/p>\n<p>This is of a video of Alan Kay presenting Ivan Sutherland&#8217;s Sketchpad from <strong>1963<\/strong>. Yes, let that sink in. He was using a pen on a screen in 1963, which is a full 20 years before Macintosh and about 12 before Microsoft came to be. It was a seminal paper when he wrote it, and it was way ahead of its time. Even today&#8217;s programs do not encompass all the features that he had.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"padding-top:15px\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mOZqRJzE8xg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mOZqRJzE8xg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here he is on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivan_Sutherland\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<br \/>\nHere is a link to his paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cl.cam.ac.uk\/TechReports\/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf\">&#8220;Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main thought threads going through work and through design as a whole is to know your history. Things have been designed, created, used, and not used over the years. It is of being a good scholar and being a good designer, to know your history. Give credit where it is due. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongeorge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}