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Alan Kay's conceptual model of a portable personal computer for learning and creation.

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6Hacker News·10/6/2026research
Alan Kay’s Early History of Smalltalk
This 1993 paper by Alan Kay recounts the origins and early development of Smalltalk, tracing influences from 1960s research in interactive computing, Simula, LOGO, and Xerox PARC. It frames Smalltalk as an early realization of object-oriented computing and a new personal-computing paradigm centered on messages, graphical interfaces, and learning-oriented user interaction.