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Long live the mouse: the mouse turns 40! Recalling

So, on two feet, making a brief overview of our mental world I would say that we are in a time dominated by rats and whores : the latter are joys and sorrows of thousands of years history, the first instead of simple rodents which were until a few years ago, became the first of the books / comics, and cartoons, then the technological tools and occasionally star film.

that we are discussing today, to the chagrin of some, are not the "gay ladies", but the mouse of the computer between a withdrawn and another, between one click to the right and one to the left came quietly, Hunting Hunting the beauty of 40 years of age .

The creator of this technological support is called Douglas Engelbart, who was born in 1925, with a thousand problems and difficulties with seventeen colleagues created the ' Augmentation Research Center. Thus was born the project of 'NLS: computers as extensions of the cognitive and communication. On June 21, 1967 obtained a patent for its XY position indicator for the display: " mouse." During Joint Computer Conference to Convention Center in San Francisco in 1968, took place the public demonstration of the project in the presence of over a thousand experts. You can view images event that laid the foundation of all that is to use the PC today. Engelbart's idea was to improve the way people work. Using hypertext, word processing, keyboard and mouse and windows, remote communication, telework, etc. Today, if you use the mouse and hypertext, it is because Douglas. A few years after Steve Jobs (Apple Computer) seeing a demonstration of the use of the Xerox mouse, had the idea to be developed later in the first computer mouse, Lisa, and later on the Macintosh, and even today in all PC. As late as 2002, 75 years, creativity and enthusiasm of Engelbart, after that discovery did not stop. In his words, a modern disconcerting is his next project. " We need to create a changing environment in which countries and institutions to grow, so that we can solve problems as they arise, unite around the idea of \u200b\u200bhow the collective intelligence to find solutions to problems facing the planet. Putting together! ( Bootstrapping In English). Thus was born the Bootstrap Institute and its project.

Via Wikipedia Italy

short, even if sometimes it slams against the wall or rails cruentemente against you because of some malfunction, the mouse is always the mouse then, many Greetings and live live the mouse!