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Alan Kay Demos GRaIL
Vincent Gable
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.
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