So Long Doug Engelbart

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/04/doug-engelbart

Best known as the father of the mouse, but in reality, a highly influential member of Silicon Valley culture that shaped the early days of computing.

The computer scientist Alan Kay, a co-founder of Xerox PARC, said later: "The demo was one of the greatest experiences of my life. To me, it was Moses opening the Red Sea … It reset the whole conception of what was reasonable to think about in personal computing."

If you're into such retro computing: here's a page at Stanford with a video of Douglas Engelbart's original 1968 mouse demonstration.

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