Soon after arriving at Apple circa 1984, Alan Kay tried to get his employer to buy Locus, a variant of #Unix #OperatingSystem that implemented live process migration: https://www.quora.com/Should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-being-document-viewers
#OperatingSystems #OS #AlanKay #Apple #ComputingHistory #History #Technology #Web #Browser #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Hypermedia #Networking #DistributedComputing
#unix #operatingsystem #operatingsystems #os #alankay #apple #computinghistory #history #technology #web #browser #webdevelopment #webdev #hypermedia #networking #distributedcomputing
I feel this is too snooty because well it’s Alan Kay but I do think often of this—
“in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. And the two-eyed people are in prison” —#AlanKay
What we need is NOT more information, we need context.
-- Alan Kay
#intelligence #alankay #quotes #panopainting #bot
What we need is NOT more information, we need context.
-- Alan Kay
#intelligence #alankay #quotes #panopainting #bot
I miss the #fonc mailing list. #smalltalk #newcomputing #vpri #lisp #maru #frank #alankay
#fonc #smalltalk #newcomputing #vpri #lisp #maru #frank #alankay
"If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems." – #AlanKay #quote /via @stefanvoigt
📍 Making Smalltalk
— computerhistory.org
#Smalltalk #OOP #AlanKay
https://youtu.be/PaOMiNku1_M
"It's hard to bullshit mother nature"
- Alan Kay
#nature #mothernature #alankay #science
Alan Kay on web browsers, document viewers, Smalltalk, NeWS and HyperCard: https://donhopkins.medium.com/alan-kay-on-should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-being-document-viewers-and-a-discussion-of-news-5cb92c7b3445 #browser #history #alankay #smalltalk #hypercard #postscript
#smalltalk #hypercard #postscript #history #browser #alankay
Regarding your tweet
🧷 https://twitter.com/dcbrock/status/1422574574768640010
Does this ⬇️ anecdotal report by #AlanKay shed some light on the similarity?
🧷 (Quora) https://qr.ae/pGDJb6
See also
🦎 https://telegram.me/FamilyOfLisp
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🏷️ #LispMachine #MITAILab #Apple #AppleMac #MITCADR #SteveJobs #Scheme #Lisp #CommonLisp #XeroxAlto
#alankay #lispmachine #mitailab #apple #applemac #mitcadr #stevejobs #scheme #lisp #commonlisp #xeroxalto
@akkartik @ploum I guess the original purpose of computers is lost, the original kind of user along with it. Is that something to lament? What was appreciable about that kind?
The new kind of user is not a programmer, irrespective of how much #AlanKay would want them to be. This user is happy consuming content unmindful of the system's problems, like consuming gasoline or electricity.
@donmelton actually yes, there are tweets by others that I’ve engaged with that are pretty good and contain links to great resources sometimes. History, computing, science, art, etc. It’s very easy to even forget they ever happened. This one for ex was a recent bookmark I saved: https://twitter.com/dynamicwebpaige/status/1571463861160534017
L’ordinateur est un médium.
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1990 erschien ein Dossier der Zeitschrift #Spektrum der #Wissenschaft zur "Datenautobahn", in dem #AlanKay seine Gedanken über "Neue Informationssysteme und #Bildung" veröffentlichte:
"In dem Maße, wie intensiv vernetzte Westentaschenrechner Allgemeingut werden, wird sich das Verhältnis der Menschen zu ihren Informationsträgern noch einmal qualitativ verändern. Mit immer mehr verfügbaren Informationen – darunter vi…
https://ripf.de/m/a9hr9et
#bildung #alankay #wissenschaft #spektrum