Part 2 of 10: Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI's 1968 Demo (Highlights)

On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute staged a 90-minute public multimedia demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. It was the world debut of personal and interactive computing: for the first time, the public saw a computer mouse, which controlled a networked computer system to demonstrate hypertext linking, real-time text editing, multiple windows with flexible view control, cathode display tubes, and shared-screen teleconferencing. The 1968 demo presaged many of the technologies we use today, from personal computing to social networking.

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Science & Technology

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• Douglas Engelbart
• SRI International
• mouse
• computer
• Bill English

[kottan1970]

For me this mother of all demos is the holy graile. The birth of modern personsal computing. Absolutely amzing ! I would like to have the whole 100 minutes in high resolution !

[betagoro]

Engelbart, genius visionary.