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Bill Atkinson

Creator of QuickDraw, MacPaint and HyperCard.

EngineeringmacOS
The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • Designed and implemented QuickDraw, the graphics engine underneath both the Lisa and Macintosh, and wrote MacPaint with its FatBits pixel editing.
  • Conceived, designed and built HyperCard, an early and hugely influential hypermedia system that let ordinary people build software.

Apple

Lisa & Macintosh graphics

One of the first thirty on the Macintosh team; principal designer of the Lisa GUI. 1951-2025.

Why

Why we celebrate them.

You drew the first round-cornered rectangle and taught a generation that anyone can make. Thank you, Bill; the marching ants still march.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • Wikipedia
  • folklore.org
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Bill Atkinson, this belongs to you.

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