Doug Engelbart honored as billionth mouse ships

Doug Engelbart honored as billionth mouse ships

The tech industry slowed down a little yesterday to look back in history on this 40th anniversary of the first public demo of the computer mouse.

I sat in the audience behind Doug Engelbart, who created the mouse — as well as collaborative editing and a number of other innovations that kicked off the age of personal computing. He did so as part of the Augmentation Research Center at SRI International. The Center invited hundreds to… Continue Reading