George and Gracie got their start on the vaudeville stage, where they met performing in separate acts, and were eventually married. They ran a radio show all through the 30s and 40s before eventually making the transition to television. Their TV show was a live, bi-weekly affair, sponsored aggressively by Carnation Evaporated Milk. It’s adorable.

By the time the first episode aired in 1950, they had been performing together for nearly 30 years. Often performing daily, or at least weekly, and always live. Here you see two masters of the stage at the peak of their powers, literally inventing the modern sitcom before your eyes.

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Periodically throughout computer history there emerges a "pinch point," a single moment where many prior technologies converge, and upon which many subsequent technologies depend. Herman Hollerith's 1890 census tabulator is one well-known instance. Another, somewhat lesser-known, is Ivan Sutherland's "Sketchpad," developed at MIT in the early 1960s, running on the transistor-based TX-2 computer. Nearly all interactive graphics applications today can trace their roots back to this pivotal demonstration. It's considered the first graphical user interface (GUI) at a time when computer graphics of ANY sort were virtually unheard of, let alone the notion that computers could be applied to both artistic and technical purposes.

1. Part 1: an interview with professor Steven Coons.
2. Part 2: demonstrating the 2D capabilities of Sketchpad, including vector scaling and instances.
3. Part 3: demonstrating the 3D capabilities of Sketchpad.

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