Last week we celebrated the shipment of our one-billionth mouse. Today, we celebrate another important mouse milestone – the 40th anniversary of the first public demonstration of the mouse– and honor the mouse’s creator, Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart, and the team that presented at what is called “the mother of all demos.”
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.
Logitech certainly wouldn’t be the company it is today without the contribution of Doug and his team so, on behalf of Logitech, thank you and congratulations!
inventor Doug Engelbart in 1963 at the Stanford Research Institute.
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart invented the mouse. It was demonstrated in public on December 9, 1968 at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco.
Rory– Great post. I wanted to share with you our video interview with Daniel Borel at ValleyZen. It’s a great, crisp interview. Borel kindly shared his insights. Please check it out:
http://www.valleyzen.com/2008/12/11/daniel-borel-logitech-one-billionth-mouse/
Here’s the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0V2K122g_s
Also let me applaud you on your corporate blog which is obviously kept very up to date and engaging. There are many corporate blogs that are not current and discourage rather than encourage interactivity.