[TUHS] Happy birthday, Douglas Engelbart!

Peter Jeremy peter at rulingia.com
Tue Jan 30 07:03:36 AEST 2018


On 2018-Jan-30 07:03:43 +1100, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>Born on this day in 1925, he was a pioneer in human/computer interaction, 
>and invented the mouse; it wasn't exactly ergonomic, being just a square 
>box with a button.

For anyone who hasn't seen it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
("The Mother of All Demos") is well worth watching even after nearly 50 years.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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