Topic: 1968 Demonstration

[Vekseid]

Or, the beginning of modern computing as we know it.

Stuff you see demoed here:

- The mouse
- Windowing
- Hypertext
- Links
- E-mail
- Word Processing
- Etc.

It's pretty impressive to see all of this, forty years ago.

http://www.1968demo.org/web.html

http://www.1968demo.org/

[Harley]

I only watched just a little bit of the beginning, but that is...  Pretty friggin' amazing. 

[Asgard]

Wow that is amazing to see how "modern" all of this is....

[jaybee55]

Erm... Some of us were actually getting our first exposure to computers in 1968 (in 2nd grade on a field trip to MIT) and, therefore, consider that a part of the "modern" era.  Some of us were programming in LISP on DEC PDP-10 equipment only a few years after that.

*Sigh* Makes me feel old

[Vekseid]

Erm... Some of us were actually getting our first exposure to computers in 1968 (in 2nd grade on a field trip to MIT) and, therefore, consider that a part of the "modern" era.  Some of us were programming in LISP on DEC PDP-10 equipment only a few years after that.

*Sigh* Makes me feel old

I remember my math teacher commenting about the look I gave him when he commented about 'newer programming languages like C and Pascal'... both of which, being older than I am, I have a hard time considering 'new'. Compared to say, php, java, ruby.

Or me commenting on the FORTRAN manual I was given, which discussed punch-card etiquette. I got a lot of looks for that one >_>