74K views · 992 reactions | Throwback to 1976  This vintage tutorial on Smalltalk shows how far we’ve come in animation tech — from the basics back then to today’s CGI and AI-driven content 烙 #smalltalk #techhistory #technology #computerhistory #vintage #animationtutorial | Computer History Museum | Facebook

Developed in the 1970s by Xerox PARC's Learning Research Group, Smalltalk pioneered overlapping windows, pop-up menus, and paned browsers, all controlled by a mouse. Smalltalk was also one of the earliest object-oriented programming languages, whose graphical interface inspired Steve Jobs and influenced the Lisa and Macintosh computers. 🖥 In this demonstration, recorded in 2017 on a Xerox Alto, Dan Ingalls, Smalltalk’s lead programmer, recreates the famous demos of Smalltalk that were given to

46K views · 389 reactions | #OnThisDay 1984: British Telecom was replacing the voice of the speaking clock. Sixty Minutes looked at the history of the system. Precisely... | BBC Archive | Facebook