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A crude precursor to the ideas in the Alto can be seen in the mother of all demos with Doug Engelbart imho.

I meant to include a reference to Ted Nelson's "It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC", which has been featured here before:

Thank you. Nelson does a great job enumerating the limitations of PARC's vision and the capabilities absent from PARC's work.

After being exposed to PARC's self-congratulatory self-promotion for decades, Nelson's history is a breath of fresh air.

This is not to devalue what PARC accomplished, but that its accomplishments must be taken in perspective.

It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC is also on YouTube:

Thank you!

Doug Engelbart > Alan Kay > Steve Jobs > ?

eh, Engelbart > Kay > Bret Victor