Doug Engelbart 1968
On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers
working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research
Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration
of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public
presentation was a session of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the
Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000
computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But
the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including
hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as
shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites
communicating over a network with audio and video interface.
“I don’t know why we call it a mouse. It started that way and we never changed
it.” –Doug Englebart, 1968
What a fascinating demo. The quote above is from Clip 12. http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html