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Element 24

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Delete

Make it gone.

backspace · trash · swipe to delete

First known

Opened

1963Sketchpad's delete button erases the object pointed at, and its constraints with it. Sutherland.

Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.

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Specimen № 24 — operate freely

Make room for the export. The Trash is on the right.

Fig. 24 — Delete

000 readings · idle

Down the Delete column

  1. it remembersDeDelete
  2. it connectsBkBlock
  3. it guessesHeHeal
  4. it actsTiTidy

Read down and Delete gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Delete takes.

  • backspace
  • trash
  • swipe to delete