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Uploaded by themacisonthetable 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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Thanks for making gaming easy mouse dude.
3 years ago 27
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40 years from now and people will watch our pcs nowadays and wonder how we wonder now.
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I saw a video on it, and the mouse kinda did what arrow keys do. It really wasn't a real GUI, and it came too early. The creator sold his patent to Apple for like 40,000 dollars or something, and they used it for their GUI.
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You're spotting something important in documenting computer history... or discussing anything in fact... which is what the terminology means specifically. Whilst you could say this is technically a GUI it's still basically a text mode gui on a graphics screen. The Xerox alto was certainly a GUI and it was a succesor to this one which it is based on. I'd say this was the first GUI but it doesn't have a complete set of features of what we would recognise as a GUI from the Alto onwards.
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But they don't mind everyone thinking they did. The media makes everyone think Apple made the first mouse, and they're glad people think that.
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What was the company? There must have been some GUI they made for it. I am wondering what you would do with a GUI in the 60's. I thought Xerox was the original maker of the GUI.
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Exactly, I read something about someone thinking it looked like a mouse's tail, so the name caught on. Next time someone says "Mices" as a plural form for the computer mouse, saying it doesn't refer to the actual animal, tell them otherwise. ;)
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They never invented the mouse, and they never said they had invented it.
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I understand that the mouse came out in the later 60's, but the GUI? How did they have a GUI? Was it a command line with a mouse? Xerox did the first GUI, but I don't understand this... Someone tell me please.
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They never claim they invented anything. They let the media do that for them.
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Apple never claimed they invented the mouse.
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Who is touching a mouse right now?
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That's pretty cool. But what does that thumb piano on the left do?
CaptainSiberia 2 years ago 2
It's another programmable input device replacing some commands or keyboard keys
themacisonthetable in reply to CaptainSiberia (Show the comment) 2 years ago