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    Bret Victor‏ @worrydream Feb 19
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    John McCarthy 10/24/2011 Douglas Engelbart 7/2/2013 Marvin Minsky 1/24/2016 Wes Clark 2/22/2016 Seymour Papert 7/31/2016 Jay Forrester 11/16/2016 Bob Taylor 4/13/2017 Chuck Thacker 6/12/2017 Larry Roberts 12/26/2018 Fernando Corbató 7/12/2019 Larry Tesler 2/17/2020

    8:49 PM - 19 Feb 2020
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    • Michel Boutros phil jones (he/him - ele) Jaeseok Lee vsemkin ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄*₎◞ ̑̑ David Hwang Akhilesh Srikanth P .𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕙 🌎
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      1. Bret Victor‏ @worrydream Feb 19
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        That ARPA/IPTO funding in the 60s was some good shit.

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      1. よしき‏ @yoshikiohshima Feb 19
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        Bert Sutherland also passed away. RIP.

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      2. Justin Falcone‏ @modernserf Feb 20
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        I thought of your obituary for Engelbart when I saw people referring to Tesler as the "inventor of copy-paste"

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      3. rektide de la fay‏ @rektide Feb 20
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        so who/where/what can i go to to hear about "no modes"? primary @nomodes http://nomodes.com  sources, or other write ups of it? what else should i scope out, beyond "inventor of copy-paste"?

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      1. Peter Wang‏ @pwang Feb 19
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        sigh I guess it’s up to us now

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      1. Walter Lima‏ @walter_lima Feb 20
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        J.C.R. Licklider 26/06/1990

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      2. katyilonka‏ @katyilonka Feb 20
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        I don't recognize every name on this list but I have the feeling they are all men. Sigh.

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      3. phil jones (he/him - ele)‏ @interstar Feb 21
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        Women live longer? Barbara Liskov and Adele Goldberg are still with us.

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        A painful decade.

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      1. bartb‏ @bartb1067 Feb 20
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        😞

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