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- 1Alan Kay's 1993 Account of Smalltalk's Early History Resurfaces▼The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
Bret Victor's site is hosting Alan Kay's 1993 essay 'The Early History of Smalltalk', a detailed firsthand account of how the pioneering object-oriented programming language was developed at Xerox PARC. The piece is drawing renewed attention among programmers and computing historians, who cite it as essential reading on the origins of personal computing, object-oriented design, and Kay's vision of computers as dynamic media for learning.
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Alan Kay's account of the early history of Smalltalk is drawing renewed attention, tracing how the pioneering object-oriented programming language took shape at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Readers are revisiting Kay's reflections on personal computing, the Dynabook vision, and the design decisions that shaped modern software, with the piece circulating widely among developers and programming-history enthusiasts.