Simon Willison’s Weblog

Sketchpad—Online Paint/Drawing application (via) Impressive canvas based bitmap drawing tool with an extremely smooth UI.

# 7th February 2010, 10:45 am / canvas, sketchpad

The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback Computer. This third episode (the second has also been published) is awesome—Sketchpad (the first GUI), NLS, Xerox PARC, the Homebrew Computer Club, Apple and the Macintosh, Lotus 123, Microsoft, and Virtual Reality presented as the “future” of computing. Worth investing an hour to watch it.

# 6th June 2008, 8:18 pm / apple, macintosh, microsoft, parc, sketchpad, thedreammachine, themachinethatchangedtheworld, vr, xeroxparc