2025-03-23 16:19 UTC
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@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space 2025-03-23 16:21
Engelbart's demo was later called "The Mother of All Demos". But first, an Intel demo at Comdex got that name. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and Saddam Hussein promised "The Mother of All Battles" in the Gulf War. "The mother of all..." became a meme, applied to many things including Intel's demo.
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@teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe 2025-03-23 18:16
A minor correction: Bill English invented the mouse. I knew him and Doug personally and Doug did not appreciate the common incorrect attribution given that Bill and Doug were collaborators. There was an iOS re-implementation of the chorded keyset utilized by early NLS systems maybe around 2010? Unfortunately it long since fell into bit rot and is not in the Apple Store anymore. SRI had cross licensing arrangements with SAIL (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab) and Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) so a lot of the inheritance mentioned on the Alto later in the thread was sanctioned. Similarly, a number of researchers matriculated from PARC to Apple (e.g. Alan Kay) who also licensed the mouse from SRI.
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@3rz@freiburg.social 2025-03-23 18:52
@kenshirriff Engelbart invented the mouse, a 2nd, most probably independent, time, again, after the Telefunken RKS 100-86 “Rollkugel-Steuerung”