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December 09 2008

snej
17:01

Happy 40th Birthday, Mouse! [Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo]

Today is the 40th anniversary of "The Mother Of All Demos", Doug Engelbart et al's presentation of their NLS system at SRI. Among other things this was the first public use of a computer mouse. (It was also the first demonstration of onscreen windows, hypertext, and real-time collaboration.) This site has photos and a video stream of the whole event.
Tags: computers history collaboration ui