Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival

What this video covers

Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at the Intertwingled festival, presented using a revived Smalltalk-78 system running on emulated 1970s Xerox PARC hardware. It shows live, user-programmable software from that era.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN returns to it again and again as a demonstration of how programmable and composable 1970s systems were compared with today's.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“a great example of what's not-even-close to possible on today's systems”

“Look how programmable this is by the user!”

“If people are interested to see part of what we had in mind”