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> Engelbart hated our present-day systems. I'm not trying to say "[citation needed]" here, but I would be interested in seeing a source for this. Does anyone know of one?
This is a bit needlessly aggressive.
This is a bit needlessly aggressive.
I found that the quip about how the document that they are sharing while having a conversation is not screensharing as we commonly understand it in modern parlance to be pretty illuminating. That modern screensharing is in several ways worse than a demo that came out decades ago is frankly amazing. I've tried to recapture a bit of that early magic with https://coderpad.io/ (multiple cursors, realtime editing/executio…
It really is amazing. I feel like there is a similar mismatch and almost backwards progress when you look at the concepts and tools behind smalltalk and the concepts most working programmers today reason with and are familiar with.
http://phdtree.org/scholar/engelbart-douglas-carl/
but there is no where to find out info about his PhD advisor.
That was a fucking excellent eulogy.
Anyone knows who was Doug Engelbart's PhD advisor at Berkeley? We have his profile at phdtree: http://phdtree.org/scholar/engelbart-douglas-carl/ but there is no where to find out info about his PhD advisor.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/histsci/ssvoral/enge...
More:
http://www.ee.washington.edu/people/alumni/profiles/woodyard...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robert_Woodyard
Its also listed on his wiki page directly.
It's screen sharing where each person has their own cursor. Works surprisingly well for a small company product.
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It really is amazing. I feel like there is a similar mismatch and almost backwards progress when you look at the concepts and tools behind smalltalk and the concepts most working programmers today reason with and are familiar with.
I think the huge focus on web development set CS back at least two decades in certain areas. The industry has been so intent on reinventing applications through the browser, it's lost ground in what can happen in areas like Engelbert's or Smalltalk or real hypertext.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It really is amazing. I feel like there is a similar mismatch and almost backwards progress when you look at the concepts and tools behind smalltalk and the concepts most working programmers today reason with and are familiar with.
I think the huge focus on web development set CS back at least two decades in certain areas. The industry has been so intent on reinventing applications through the browser, it's lost ground in what can happen in areas like Engelbert's or Smalltalk or real hypertext.