Douglas Engelbart has died - helped pioneer computers as we know it today

scrlk · 3 Jul 2013 at 22:10

This probably won't receive that much attention, but the guy that helped pioneer the stuff that we use today - GUIs, mouse, hypertext etc has died at the age of 88.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...puter-mouse-creator-visionary-dies-at-88.html

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/3/44...rt-computer-visionary-who-invented-mouse-dies

Duke · 3 Jul 2013 at 22:13

RIP

Glad they didn't keep the term 'X-Y position indicator for a display system' :eek:

scrlk · 3 Jul 2013 at 22:17

Here's the 'Mother of all Demos':

Long watch - but to think, this was in 1968! Took them another 40 years to pretty much implement everything in the video.

estebanrey · 3 Jul 2013 at 22:57

Lies, the mouse was invented in the middle ages...

Hades · 3 Jul 2013 at 22:59

Kosmiche · 3 Jul 2013 at 23:33

scrlk said:
Here's the 'Mother of all Demos':

Long watch - but to think, this was in 1968! Took them another 40 years to pretty much implement everything in the video.

...but can it run crysis?

SexyGreyFox · 4 Jul 2013 at 07:41

Respect

Cosimo · 4 Jul 2013 at 13:54

A great technology pioneer.

RIP