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Demo of Ivan Sutherland's 1963 Sketchpad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o

It was a drawing app with the following features:

Snap to object ("This allows me to be sloppy while I'm drawing and get a precision drawing at the same time"), connected vectors, arcs, alignment with other objects, copying, multiple "files," scaling ("It scales approximately 2 miles in size"), 3D, etc etc

It blows me away that this kind of UI was even conceived in the 1960s. It feels like there was a dark ages middle period after then until quite recently.




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