We haven't spoken much since then,” Engelbart told Wired magazine in 2008.Įngelbart’s mouse was too ahead of its time for him to profit from his idea. Now the three-button mouse has become standard, except for the Mac. While the mouse proved to be a big hit with most, there was one man who questioned Engelbart’s design - specifically, how many buttons the mouse should have. These are now core technologies that make up what we think of as modern computing. The unveiling of the NLS at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco has been called “the mother of all demos” by some, because it packed video conferencing, networked collaboration, the mouse, hyperlinks and text editing into one presentation.
At a time when many people are turning to track pads and touch screens, the mouse remains perhaps the most commonly used peripheral of the past three decades.īut the mouse was a minor piece of Engelbart’s larger project, the oN-Line System. Doug Engelbart is most celebrated for his role in inventing the mouse (along with his lead engineer at the Stanford Research Institute, Bill English, who fashioned the first mouse prototype).
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