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Originally Posted by Kubizo
Steve Jobs INVENTED THE MOUSE! Exactly, the little thing everyone has used to post on this thread was first released on an Apple computer, in the early days at Apple. True, there had been prototypes before, but never (at least to my knowledge) a complete package of a visual operating system with windows before Microsoft released windows. He did not invent the mouse as a physical object, but he invented the way we use it today.
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With all due respect, I disagree.
He might have been the one to put it successfully on the market as a comprehensive packet, but ...
See "the mother of all Demos"
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
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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 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.
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There are many other examples, but I am not going to discuss it in this thread.