https://tube.arthack.nz/videos/watch/b828a136-beda-41d4-b1ac-635dcfd20b16 This is part 1 of 3, featuring an interview with professor Steven Coons; software is demonstrated in parts 2 and 3. Source: https://archive.org/details/sketchpad19631of3 Playlist: 1, 2, 3 Periodically throughout computer history there emerges a "pinch point," a single moment where many prior technologies converge, and upon which many subsequent technologies depend. Herman Hollerith's 1890 census tabulator is one well-known instance. Another, somewhat lesser-known, is Ivan Sutherland's "Sketchpad," developed at MIT in the early 1960s, running on the transistor-based TX-2 computer. Nearly all interactive graphics applications today can trace their roots back to this pivotal demonstration. It's considered the first graphical user interface (GUI) at a time when computer graphics of ANY sort were virtually unheard of, let alone the notion that computers could be applied to both artistic and technical purposes. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:55:37 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.arthack.nz https://tube.arthack.nz/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://tube.arthack.nz/videos/watch/b828a136-beda-41d4-b1ac-635dcfd20b16 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.arthack.nz/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.