Team recreates the 1979 'PUT THAT THERE' demo, mother of all computer-use demos
flowersslop · x · 2026-09-05
Killian shared a full recreation of MIT's 1979 "PUT THAT THERE" demo — widely seen as the ancestor of computer-use interaction — built by Daniel Fradin's team with an Astra-inspired setup, calling it "the mother of all computer-use demos."
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