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

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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[Patrick Schabus]

it sooo great to have this online !

thanks a lot

[edshift]

What saddens me greatly is that this is probably the most significant modern historical document on YouTube and it has only 2778 hits.

These people changed the world even if they never got credit for it.

It was groundbreaking stuff and we're only now fully 30+ years later at a stage where we can say it's all been implemented.

30 years to market in software????

Xerox Parc.

Thank you.

Luv and Peace.

[slaya9383]

Couldn't agree more.

[journeyquest1]

Thanks Stanford Research for being a big part of bringing the world to our fingertips.

[TechHisotry]

New Book "The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart" by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg in conversation with Douglas Engelbart describes how his vision drove his innovation process.