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Alan Kay Demos GRaIL

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Alan Kay Demos GRaIL

Alan Kay demonstrates GRaIL, a graphical input language system from around 1968 in which hand-drawn strokes become boxes, connections and dataflow-style programs.

HN points to it as proof that the 1960s already had modeless, sketch-based interfaces that remain impressive today.

6 Hacker News mentions · 2016–2025

Topics

  • GUI, HCI & interface history
  • History of computing

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