Douglas Engelbart : The Mother of All Demos (2/9)

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/dougs-1968-demo.html for more great resources.

Credit to SRI International

Category:

Science & Technology

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• NLS
• Augmentation
• Research
• Center
• Doug
• Douglas
• Engelbart
• first
• GUI
• 1968
• 60s

[TurdBlossom95]

my grandpa was on that team :D

[Digeridude]

That headset he's wearing is surprisingly compact, too.

[Invisibrah]

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[nholt]

This was so far ahead of it's time. WTF happened?

[Jemmer1000]

1969: Huh?, What?

2011: Dude, check out Windows 7.....

[DarthAzmul]

The man is clearly proof of time travel.

[DrLsw]

this guy was thinkin PDA before any type of personal computer was even practical!

[livordie4eelam]

how did he just copy like that????they used command lines in 1983..but in 1968 he just copys in a push of button???am sure they got it from alien!!

[dowekeller]

Most computers in 1968 were batch mode machines run with punch cards where a programmer would hand in a job made of a deck of cards, and a few days later (if he was lucky) he'd get back a print-out of his results. That's only if you worked for one of the few military, government or corporate installations that actually had a computer. Englebart envisioned networked time-shared computers with mice, chorded handsets that would speed up typing, and audio-visual integration. Super f*cking avanced!

[charvelgtrs]

It goes to show how old the technology in our homes that we think is modern is really old.

I mean Plasma and LCD technology has been around for well over 25 yrs.

[CaptainSiberia]

This stuff is scientifically impossible! This man is a sorcerer! Burn him!

[moremost]

now you can imagine, that they were on the moon, also ahead of the time