![]() "We can do a lot of the individual things that are done in this system better. "This vision hasn't really been realized in today's environment," said Andries van Dam, a Brown University professor of computer science. "One of the things that Doug really gets credit for is persisting in spite of the fact that 90% of the people thought he was a crackpot," said Bill Paxton, a researcher with the University of California, Santa Barbara, who was on the 1968 demo team.Īnother audience member for the 1968 demo said that the computer industry, with its incompatible file formats, will probably never manage to achieve the vision laid out by Engelbart. We thought that when it had escaped out to the world it would have a more dignified name, but it didn't."Įngelbart's work was funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of Defense, but not everyone bought into his vision of computing, panelists at the 2008 celebration said. "One of the members of the team nicknamed the device a mouse and it caught on. At the time it was called an x-y position indicator. And a joystick that you wiggle around to try to steer things." In the end, the mouse won all the tests for speed and accuracy. We had a light panel you had to hold up right next to the screen so the computer could see it. We had several gadgets that ended up with pivots you could move around. In a BBC interview in 2001, Engelbart said of the first mouse: "We had a big heavy tracking ball, it was like a cannonball. Beige and clunky, with three ergonomically unfriendly buttons, it was about the size of five iPhones. ![]() Hagan had the world's first commercially produced mouse on hand and was showing it to all comers during a break at the Stanford event. Two years later, the company he worked for had bought Computer Displays Inc., the company that sold the first mouse, as part of its ARDS (Advanced Remote Display System) computer. ![]() "My heart was in my mouth the whole time," remembers Tom Hagan, CEO of Actioneer. An interesting article penned in 2008 by the IDG News Service about the celebration of the 40 th anniversary of the NLS demo stated: Those who saw the original demo and understood Engelbart's vision were blown away. ![]()
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