1970 -
Douglas Engelbart receives patent for first computer mouse.
Yet Silicon Valley has thrived in part because its history is populated by figures like Whole Earth Catalog editor Stewart Brand, novelist Ken Kesey and his LSD-fueled "Merry Pranksters," phone hacker Cap'n Crunch, inventor
Douglas Engelbart, and the late Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow.
Licklider, Ivan Sutherland, Ted Nelson,
Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and Nicholas Negroponte and argues that they were not just computer scientists, but media theorists.
Vannever Bush, Ted Nelson and
Douglas Engelbart are figures well known and celebrated within computing history, but none has achieved the same iconic cultural status as, for example, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
That article, and work by others including
Douglas Engelbart - the creator of the computer mouse had influenced Tim Berners-Lee.
IN the same week as
Douglas Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, dies..
While those protests were swelling last week,
Douglas Engelbart was dying from kidney failure in his home in Atherton, Calif., at the age of 88.
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Douglas Engelbart, who revolutionized computing by inventing the mouse, died in California on Tuesday at ...
LOS ANGELES --
Douglas Engelbart, who revolutionized computing by inventing the mouse, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 88, the institute bearing his name said Wednesday.
This was four years after
Douglas Engelbart's demo of NLS (oNLine System), which introduced hypertext, the mouse, and videoconferencing, and two years before Ted Nelson published Computer Lib/Dream Machines, a sprawling manifesto of personal liberation through hypertext.