The father of the mouse, Douglas Engelbart, died yesterday at age 88. What a legacy. He lived just long enough to see touch and gesture begin to make inroads on the use of the ubiquitous mouse. As much as touch and gestures are nice, I still love my Mad Katz Rat mouse with more buttons and features than Engelbart ever imagined. RIP in computer heaven.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... art-was-88
RIP Father of the mouse
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RIP Father of the mouse
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Re: RIP Father of the mouse
Computer heaven is just an alternate dimension where Bill Gates got hit by a truck before the completion of his first OS. 
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You never know. Computing might look a whole hell of a lot different now if ol' Gates hadn't force fed everyone with his idea of computer OS nirvana onto everything PC. 
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Re: RIP Father of the mouse
Yeah, this guy was one of the actual visionaries. Computing didn't wind up looking exactly like he'd imagined, but it was a lot closer than anything seen before.