{"id":214,"date":"2009-01-18T20:08:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T01:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/touching-the-information\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T17:54:35","slug":"touching-the-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/touching-the-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching The Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Kay talking about GRaIL, <strong>Gr<\/strong>aphical <strong>I<\/strong>nput <strong>L<\/strong>anguage, a system implemented in the <em>late &#8217;60s<\/em> that was so far ahead of it&#8217;s time, it&#8217;s still pretty impressive <em>today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QQhVQ1UG6aM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QQhVQ1UG6aM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt like I was sticking my hands right through the display and actually <em>touching<\/em> the information structures directly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea this sort of interface was done so early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Kay talking about GRaIL, Graphical Input Language, a system implemented in the late &#8217;60s that was so far ahead of it&#8217;s time, it&#8217;s still pretty impressive today. &#8220;I felt like I was sticking my hands right through the display and actually touching the information structures directly.&#8221; I had no idea this sort of interface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,4,8],"tags":[333,307,334,305,306],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-design","category-programming","category-usability","tag-alan-kay","tag-character-recognition","tag-doing-with-images-makes-symbols","tag-history","tag-iphone-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}