A beautiful virtual museum of digital painting programs throughout the history of computing, from the 60s through the 90s (via @Patrick Dubroy) — Paint: a timeline

Isn’t it awesome? So many systems that I’ve heard about, but never seen.

Totally! The only one I used myself was Deluxe Paint and whatever came bundled with ClarisWorks in the 90s. Wild to see how far some areas have come… and how stubbornly static others are. Color pickers in particular feel oddly stuck (though I know I’m biased 😅).

In general it’s pretty wild how many interaction patterns were invented between the Alto and the Mac and haven’t really changed since!