First Computer Mouse

August 18, 2007

The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute in 1963 after extensive usability testing. It was also called the bug, but eventually this was dropped in favor of mouse. It was one of several experimental pointing devices developed for Engelbart’s oN-Line System (NLS), which was both a hardware and software system.

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Link to Story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_first_computer_mouse

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