Today marks the anniversary of the first public demonstration of the mouse.
And how long ago was that? Fifteen years? Twenty years? No, it's the fortieth anniversary of the first time the mouse was demonstrated.
The BBC reports: The humble computer mouse celebrates its 40th anniversary today.
On 9 December 1968 hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of working with computers.
1968 - were you even born then?
Yet another example that the internet is NOT for the younger generation! Engelbart was born in 1925 which means that, if he is alive today (I should check really) he is now eighty three years old. Is anyone going to suggest that he doesn't know how to use a computer???
Actually, I did check ... Wikipedia says:
Currently (age 83 as of 2008), he just released the BETA version of the a new book "Evolving Collective Intelligence" which he wrote with Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg.[citation needed] He is the director of the Bootstrap Institute, which he founded in 1988 with one of his daughters, Christina Engelbart. It is located in Menlo Park, California and promotes Engelbart's philosophy, the concept of Collective IQ. In 2005 Engelbart received a National Science Foundation grant to fund the open source HyperScope project. The Hyperscope project has built a browser component using Ajax and DHTML designed to replicate Augment's multiple viewing and jumping capabilities (linking within and across various documents). HyperScope is perceived as the first step of a process designed to engage a wider community in a dialogue, on development of collaborative software and services, based on Engelbart's goals and research. Bootstrap Institute is now housed at SRI International.
Chances are that he CAN use a computer, then...
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The internet is for the younger generation.
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