Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the Mouse
- Posted: Dec 01, 2005 at 11:00 AM
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Douglas Englebart, the inventor of the computer mouse that we all take for granted by now, recently sat down to dine with Scoble and few other folks. Watch as Doug discusses the history and motivation behind his invention.
Joining Doug and Scoble are Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of ActiveWords, Andy Ruff, PM on the Microsoft Entourage team, Joe Jaffe, marketer, and Bill Daul.
From Scoble:
"Don’t know who Doug Engelbart is? Visit his Wikipedia page and read up (he developed the mouse 25 years before Apple used it on the Macintosh)."
Enjoy.
Joining Doug and Scoble are Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of ActiveWords, Andy Ruff, PM on the Microsoft Entourage team, Joe Jaffe, marketer, and Bill Daul.
From Scoble:
"Don’t know who Doug Engelbart is? Visit his Wikipedia page and read up (he developed the mouse 25 years before Apple used it on the Macintosh)."
Enjoy.
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it is so fortunate that the history of the pioneers of Computer/Internet/Web can be archive for future generations - as opposed to just reading Old News Groups
Thanks.
It's funny and really cool!
I hope to one day when I have grand kids (I'm 19) tell them what I was doing when I was their age.
Edit: Wow, I'm at the last 5 minutes of the video, I love that he thinks ideas are free. He doesn't care about making the money, he cares about the evolution of the ideas.
I like to share a link to Frode Hegland's site at http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/
Please follow the video and audio links at the bottom of the page. Frode has an excellent collection of audio and video interviews with Doug Engelbart.
enjoy
Matthias
check out www.bootstrap.org - the official Engelbart-Site and there is another excellent interview @ www.pbs.org/nerdtv/ - Cringley's series of tech-gurus. (This time the audio is very good).
Realize. The old man (in the NerdTV-Piece) is talking soft and tender but his thoughs are sharp and his ideas edgy. I would love to have such a brain at that age...
There is wisdom in old men, we can sip from
I do, send me email. rscoble@microsoft.com
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