Monday, December 08, 2008

Happy birthday, mouse!

Those of us old enough to remember the days of strange keyboard commands in WordPerfect, also might remember well how we thought the mouse and GUI were the greatest inventions ever. That mouse is now 40 years old--I didn't know that it pre-dated the Mac, which is where I used a mouse for the first time. The BBC:
On 9 December 1968 hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of working with computers.
The first mouse that Dr Engelbart used in the demo at the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) was made of wood and had one button

Thank you, Dr. Engelbart.

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