Douglas C. Engelbart, 1968 NLS Demo, worlds first mouse

[Hot Trout]

On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.

This link will take you to the 35 segments of the overall demo and let you browse through them. I found this fascinating and considering the date, 1968, these guys were way ahead of the rest of the IT world.

http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

[stinow]

Ty HT,

Interesting post

[daffy2]

You were right, this was fascinating. Kinda makes you wonder what people at places like Stanford and MIT are playing with now, eh?