Helvensteijn.com » demo http://helvensteijn.com Some fancy, yet to be devised subtitle goes here... Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:20:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Mother of All Demos http://helvensteijn.com/blog/2008/12/09/the-mother-of-all-demos/ http://helvensteijn.com/blog/2008/12/09/the-mother-of-all-demos/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:43:03 +0000 Colin Helvensteijn http://helvensteijn.com/?p=570 Just a post to commemorate that 40 years ago today, Douglas Engelbart held The Mother of All Demos (video), introducing concepts such as the computer mouse, hyperlinks and e-mail. Taken for granted today, back in 1968 those were things no one had ever heard of.

Just think, without the mouse, graphical user interfaces probably never would have come off the ground. And what would the Internet be without e-mail and hyperlinks? In my opinion, this counts as one of the pivotal moments in history that made possible the computer as we know it today.

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