What a handsome guy!
Posted on 07/03/2013 3:56:38 PM PDT by Borges
Douglas Engelbart, whose invention of the mouse transformed the way people interact with computers, has died.
Engelbart died Tuesday night at his home in Atherton, California, SRI International -- the research institute where he once worked -- said in a statement. He was 88. "Doug's legacy is immense — anyone in the world who uses a mouse or enjoys the productive benefits of a personal computer is indebted to him," Curtis R. Carlson, SRI's president and CEO, said in a written statement. Decades ago, Engelbart came up with the idea we now know as a mouse.
His first prototype, which featured a carved out wooden block, wheels and a tiny red button, looks quite different from the sleek plastic designs now seen in homes and offices around the world.
A radar technician during World War II, Engelbart worked at the Stanford Research Institute during the 1960s. It was there that a vision of people sitting in front of a video screen, interacting with a computer, came to him.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
RIP, instigator. ;-)
I hope Mr. Engalbart was paid well for his invention. May he R.I.P.
What a handsome guy!
"The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor."
RIP.
Right click or left?
Click!
RIP.
Really glad to not have to clean crap off of the rollers anymore. RIP.
Same here, but his invention was still great even when you did have to clean off the crap. RIP
Back in the days of minis, with Norsk Data competing with DEC, Data General and a whole heap of others for defense contracts and other stuff, ND needed a graphic interface. And they needed a mouse. The mouse turned out not to be a problem, but not one of the geniuses at ND could manage to program a driver.
So two of the ND directors went begging to Microsoft - CEO and CTO; they didn’t have any money, just barely to the plane ticket. They wangled a meeting with Bill Gates, and he gave them the driver code for free. They returned in triumph. The gift a few lines of code turned out to be worth hundreds of millions.
Agreed :-)
The first mouse is on display at the SRI headquarters in Menlo Park.
If you call inventing reverse engineering alien technology found at Roswell, NM. ;>)
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Inventing the mouse was no walk in the PARC.
Can't be a true story. The only entity to the left of Gates is Satan himself.
MS has only gotten where it's at by stealing everything.
Gotta be true, I read that right here on FR.
Nothing at Xerox was. Worst case of corporate tunnel vision I've ever encountered. If something didn't directly relate to xerography, they couldn't be bothered to even look at it.
When they got a hold of the mouse, it hadn't yet been named.
They wanted to call it a "turtle".
I can hear the discussion in my mind:
- I've got this great new input device!
- Yeah? What should we call it?
- Oh, I dunno, let's name it after something cold, hard, slimy, slow, and dead stupid, let's call it a Turtle™!
- What a great idea! Have a Burgie!
Here’s hoping he took it with him! Good riddance to bad rubbish! (The mouse, that is!)
You only say that because you’re a cat.
Lol. Many years ago. Before 1980.
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