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Uploaded by on Apr 5, 2008

On December 9, 1968 in San Francisco, Douglas Engelbart presents for the first time the computer mouse.

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  • That's pretty cool. But what does that thumb piano on the left do?

  • It's another programmable input device replacing some commands or keyboard keys

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  • Thanks for making gaming easy mouse dude.

  • 40 years from now and people will watch our pcs nowadays and wonder how we wonder now.

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  • @ile54 They never claim they invented anything. They let the media do that for them.

  • @piratesmvp Apple never claimed they invented the mouse.

  • Who is touching a mouse right now?

  • And Apple would have you believe they were the first to invent the mouse. This thing was made before Apple even existed!

  • This guy was a genius so far ahead of his time in 1968 and yet in the late 1980's Windows still had a blinking :C/  WTF?

  • now i can understand why it is mouse.

  • now they got a mind control mouse

  • pfffffft....it'll never catch on

  • @tylersmyler I would guess its called a mouse, because it has a body and a tail ... thus slightly reminding of a mouse or a rat?

  • 00:45 amuses me so much...

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