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Sketchpad, The World’s First

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communications System.

Between 1962 and 1964, Dr. Ivan Sutherland created Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communications System, arguably the world’s first computer graphics system, and non-procedural programming system.

Ivan Sutherland at the TX-2 using Sketchpad

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Memex, The Dawn of Informatics

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

“AS WE MAY THINK” BY DR. VANNEVAR BUSH

Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly→,As We May Think→” (July, 1945), a member of the Manhattan Project proposes the [tag]Memex[/tag]↔, a sort of microfilm-based knowledge desk. Many consider the Memex to be the pre-digital precursor to the idea of the Web and Internet as we know it today. It may reflect the dawn of the information age.

Memex diagramDr. Vannevar Bush, creator of the MemexMemex camera diagram

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