The History of Computing

The Mouse


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In a world of rapidly changing technologies, few have lasted as long is as unaltered a fashion as the mouse. The party line is that the computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964 and that it was a one-button wooden device that had two metal wheels. But there’s a lot more to tell... Englebart had read an article in 1945 called “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush. He was in the Philippines working as a radio and radar tech. He’d return home and...
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The History of ComputingBy Charles Edge

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