On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
If you want to see a real killer demo, check out the 1968 demo of Doug Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center.
Yes, I often mention that one.
They should a actual, functional system with hyperlinks, a basic GUI, the mouse, video conferencing, custom computer furniture, etc.
AFAIK, he invented a lot of things: not only the mouse, but also undo/redo, copy/cut/paste, and foldable trees; also it might have been the first implementation of hyperlinks, but the concept is usually attributed to Vannevar.
when most people were excited to be using the terminal:
BTW, back then, a "terminal" usually didn't have a monitor. If you had one, then what you had had to be called "Video Terminal" (VT) to make sure that people knew that you had those newfangled monitors. Else, terminals were usually typewriters equipped with a serial port. This explains some things in computer history, like how old UNIX "plain text" often used the backspace code (0x08) to mean "superimpose two characters", and especially in combination with underscore to mean underline.
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