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hi Ted congratulations on your fest day  I'm so sorry I won't be able to be with  you but I found out that I had to stay  in Boston this entire week I was trying  to get out of something on Thursday so I  could fly back here Wednesday night but  I can't do it so we made this video to  celebrate your day and Bonnie and I  thought that the most important part of  this would be to thank you so much for  being responsible for us meeting up  falling in love and getting married and  Bonnie made a little video explaining  this and here she is hi I'm Bonnie  McMurray and this is how Ted Nelson  spawned the movie Tron and a marriage  that's lasted more than 30 years the  year was 1979  I just left Universal Studios to write a  movie about a videogame warrior inside  of a computer there were no personal  computers at that time only these in LA  there were many video arcades but only  one computer stores for home-brewed  types only I went there and found this  book  Nelson I read it cover to cover well  covered a middle and then upside down  and other cover to middle and there was  an article about Alan Kay so I went up  to Xerox PARC and met the guy a half  hour interview stretched in two hours  and Alan Kay became the technical  consultant on the movie Tron we spent  many happy hours in conversation along  Venice and Santa Monica beaches and also  do cars and I wrote a script filled with  cool science there was a bit who wanted  to be a program and there was a video  game warrior along to be a human the  script was uploaded to Park on this and  then I went up there and edited the  script on the alto computer making sure  on the first movie script ever to be  edited for the word processing program  it's sold to Disney and after eight new  writers and considerable meddling it  became the movie Tron groundbreaking yes  but Alan I think the marriage turned up  into the movie we thank you Ted Nelson  thanks bond as thornton wilder's old  fortune teller says it is easy to tell  the future but asks who can tell the  past it's not just a memory problem but  one of too much complicated detail  without enough perspectives it would be  great if we could go back there and take  a look at the world Bonnie talks about  and to some extent we can some years ago  Xerox decided to clean their warehouse  and throw out most of the park data  discs here's one of the few that got  saved about 100 out of thousands were  rescued and a few thousand files were  recovered and just one of all of those  files happen to contain one of our  systems from the 70s small talk is in  the form of a software internet of  software computers that is completely  self-contained there's no separate  operating system applications etc only  software computers communicating with  each other and each simulating some  aspect of the personal computer system  some objects simulate characters on the  screen some simulate pictures some  windows some places where the users can  do things the software computers are in  terms of virtual hardware that is  independent of the physical computers  they run on to bring this back to life  we emulated the virtual hardware in  JavaScript actually it is faster than  the actual park computers of 40 years  ago and with this we have a time machine  that allows us to go back back back into  the past and run the same software that  both bonnie and steve jobs' saw in fact  I've been using the system to give this  talk here we see something that is  vaguely familiar overlapping windows  iconic representations and so forth and  this system ran on the three main  machines at Xerox PARC the alto the  first modern style of personal computer  the note-taker the first portable  computer and the more powerful Dorado  computer windows here our views of tools  and the kinds of resources that media  authors use  to create the writings of the future  they're not apps we can bring any and  all objects in small talk system to any  of these projects and we see here a view  of the system itself and animation a  halftone painting I did 40 years ago I  can scribble
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			hi Ted congratulations on your fest day I'm so sorry I won't be able to be with you but I found out that I had to stay in Boston this entire week I was trying to get out of something on Thursday so I could fly back here Wednesday night but I can't do it so we made this video to celebrate your day and Bonnie and I thought that the most important part of this would be to thank you so much for being responsible for us meeting up falling in love and getting married and Bonnie made a little video explaining this and here she is hi I'm Bonnie McMurray and this is how Ted Nelson spawned the movie Tron and a marriage that's lasted more than 30 years the year was 1979 I just left Universal Studios to write a movie about a videogame warrior inside of a computer there were no personal computers at that time only these in LA there were many video arcades but only one computer stores for home-brewed types only I went there and found this book Nelson I read it cover to cover well covered a middle and then upside down and other cover to middle and there was an article about Alan Kay so I went up to Xerox PARC and met the guy a half hour interview stretched in two hours and Alan Kay became the technical consultant on the movie Tron we spent many happy hours in conversation along Venice and Santa Monica beaches and also do cars and I wrote a script filled with cool science there was a bit who wanted to be a program and there was a video game warrior along to be a human the script was uploaded to Park on this and then I went up there and edited the script on the alto computer making sure on the first movie script ever to be edited for the word processing program it's sold to Disney and after eight new writers and considerable meddling it became the movie Tron groundbreaking yes but Alan I think the marriage turned up into the movie we thank you Ted Nelson thanks bond as thornton wilder's old fortune teller says it is easy to tell the future but asks who can tell the past it's not just a memory problem but one of too much complicated detail without enough perspectives it would be great if we could go back there and take a look at the world Bonnie talks about and to some extent we can some years ago Xerox decided to clean their warehouse and throw out most of the park data discs here's one of the few that got saved about 100 out of thousands were rescued and a few thousand files were recovered and just one of all of those files happen to contain one of our systems from the 70s small talk is in the form of a software internet of software computers that is completely self-contained there's no separate operating system applications etc only software computers communicating with each other and each simulating some aspect of the personal computer system some objects simulate characters on the screen some simulate pictures some windows some places where the users can do things the software computers are in terms of virtual hardware that is independent of the physical computers they run on to bring this back to life we emulated the virtual hardware in JavaScript actually it is faster than the actual park computers of 40 years ago and with this we have a time machine that allows us to go back back back into the past and run the same software that both bonnie and steve jobs' saw in fact I've been using the system to give this talk here we see something that is vaguely familiar overlapping windows iconic representations and so forth and this system ran on the three main machines at Xerox PARC the alto the first modern style of personal computer the note-taker the first portable computer and the more powerful Dorado computer windows here our views of tools and the kinds of resources that media authors use to create the writings of the future they're not apps we can bring any and all objects in small talk system to any of these projects and we see here a view of the system itself and animation a halftone painting I did 40 years ago I can scribble