“I Don’t Know Why We Call It A Mouse”
July 3, 2013 in Science/Tech, Urban Studies, Videos | Permalink
Sad to hear of the passing of Douglas Engelbart, the computer pioneer most famous for his “Mother of all Demos” on December 9, 1968 in San Francisco, which introduced the mouse, video conferencing and word processing, among other pieces of the future.
The mouse:
The whole demo:
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