From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:13:38 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, computer mouse! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180427111338.GA78877@server.rulingia.com> On 2018-Apr-27 19:57:51 +1000, Dave Horsfall 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 963 bytes Desc: not available URL: