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Title: Why the Mouse Should Be Buried With Its Brilliant Inventor Post by: HCK on July 07, 2013, 11:00:06 pm Why the Mouse Should Be Buried With Its Brilliant Inventor
Douglas Engelbart died this week. But his most iconic idea lives on. The venerable computer mouse, originally prototyped as a pine box with three buttons and metal wheels, was dreamed up by Englebart fifty years ago. The mouse has been upgraded and re-envisioned — for example, they don’t use wheels or even trackballs anymore. Some [...]The post Why the Mouse Should Be Buried With Its Brilliant Inventor appeared first on Cult of Mac.Related StoriesDeveloper Tweaks App To Give One User A Romantic Wedding ProposalSamsung Airs Weird Galaxy S4 Ad In Iceland With Another Unsubtle Stab At AppleIrish Committee Chooses Not To Grill Apple & Google About TaxiPhone 5 The ‘Most Hated Handset’, Galaxy S4 The Most Loved [Report]The Strangest Samsung Anti-Apple Commercial We’ve Seen Yet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cultofmac/bFow/~3/H8p98kcjvuM/story01.htm |