From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:13:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180427111338.GA78877@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1804271949190.62425@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 2018-Apr-27 19:57:51 +1000, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>On this day in 1981, some little company called Xerox PARC introduced
Well, the company was Xerox. PARC was their research facility.
>something called a "mouse" (mostly because it has a tail), but I'm
Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the mouse in his "Mother of All Demos" on
1968-Dec-09 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY). According
to WP, he applied for the patent in 1967 so I'm not sure when he invented it.
--
Peter Jeremy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-27 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-27 9:57 Dave Horsfall
2018-04-27 10:18 ` Hellwig Geisse
2018-04-27 10:58 ` William Corcoran
2018-04-27 11:13 ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
2018-04-27 12:13 ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-27 14:47 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-04-27 18:23 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-27 12:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-04-27 21:00 ` Cág
2018-04-27 23:06 ` Dave Horsfall
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