50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart's ‘Mother of All Demos’ changed personal technology forever

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Imagine someone demonstrating a jet plane 15 years before Kitty Hawk. Imagine someone demonstrating a smartphone 15 years before the first cellular networks were even launched. Imagine someone demonstrating a controlled nuclear chain reaction 15 years before Einstein formulated e=mc2.

On a crisp, overcast, and breezy Monday afternoon in San Francisco on December 9, 1968, before an SRO audience of more than 2,000 slack-jawed computer engineers, a soft-spoken engineer named Douglas Engelbart held the first public demonstration of word processing, point-and-clicking, dragging-and-dropping, hypermedia and hyperlinking, cross-file editing, idea/outline processing, collaborative groupware, text messaging, onscreen real-time video teleconferencing, and a weird little device dubbed a "mouse" — the essentials of a graphical user interface (GUI) 15 years before the first personal computers went on sale. Read more...

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50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart's ‘Mother of All Demos’ changed personal technology forever 50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart's ‘Mother of All Demos’ changed personal technology forever Reviewed by mimisabreena on Sunday, December 09, 2018 Rating: 5

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