The Origin of Computer Mouse
The computer mouse has become too familiar in the technology world. But for its present development, this device has gone through a fairly long calendar process with many very interesting milestones.
Over 50 years ago, that is, in 1968, an American engineer Douglas Engelbart demonstrated for the first time a prototype of a computer mouse at a computer science conference in San Francisco state. At that time, he called the device the “On-screen X-Y Positioning Device”.
The mouse was originally housed in a high-grade wooden box, twice the size of today’s mice.
Over 50 years ago, the first computer mouse was introduced to the public.
This was an event — with the participation of about 1,000 professional computers — which was later known as the “mother of all demos”. Conferences are the origin of many concepts that have become popular today such as: mouse, hypertext, dynamic linked file …
Engelbart — the father of mouse died in 2013 at the age of 88. Engelbart filed a patent in 1967, but only three…
