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Xerox Star User Interface: An overview
ACM SIGCHI · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2022–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 51 other demo videos tagged GUI, HCI & interface history, the mean is 1.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 1.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2022–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
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- ACM SIGCHI
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- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
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- Hacker News mention years
- 2022–2025
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Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in GUI, HCI & interface history. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xerox Star User Interface: An overviewCurrent video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)demo · Marcel | 8 | 8 | 40% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festivaldemo · TheTedNelson | 7 | 10 | 55% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963demo · Interface Studies | 5 | 5 | 38% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Living with an Apple Lisa [video]”. Its short rationale: Dedicated video on the Star.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app”. Its short rationale: Star was document-centric.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird”. Its short rationale: Example of Xerox office system UI for comparison with Mac.