Douglas Engelbart : The Mother of All Demos (1/9)

On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.

(1/9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
(2/9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=a11JDLBXtPQ
(3/9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=61oMy7Tr-bM
(4/9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=fNXLK78ZaFo
(5/9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=7zz1SwCTCEE
(6/9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=6dVNxlLYTsQ
(7/9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=XiJA7_Sw9aM
(8/9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=EI8LZKW5Lwk
(9/9) http://youtube.com/watch?v=VYDg2wr2QfI

See also the Stanford Mousesite http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/ for the complete annotated version of the demo and background, as well as the Doug Engelbart Institute http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/d... for more great resources.

Credit to SRI International

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[canerakat]

cezmi dayıdan gelenler ?

[Vaes Joren]

The people in that room are pretty much the people that started silicon vally

[cubanbach]

What drugs must I take to be like you?

[cubanbach]

wow

[7ai5han]

Thanks!

[nayt ovli]

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[TheBNNnews]

Wow, dumb troll. Well just in case you are just stupid: Windows 95 came out in 1995, not 1968. This mouse is what helped the GUI get created, which helped the whole world, and made it so you could sit on your lazy @ss all day and use your GUI with your mouse. In 10 years you are gonna say YOUR computer is a piece of junk.

[TheBNNnews]

He was a really good business person, but I do realize that Doug invented the mouse and sold his patent to Apple. Steve Jobs took bad things and made them happen. Nobody says he invented everything.

[TheBNNnews]

What are you talking about? 

[vdmie]

Better video/audio at ?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

[stephenmmoran]

This... and the Richard Feynman lectures. watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk

[jezol007]

Cool sounds ;)