So this past summer Douglas C. Engelbart died. Engelbart was one of the people who made almost all of todays technology possible through his innovative ideas and his strive to "make the world better". He helped invent the computer mouse, networked computers precursors to graphical user interfaces, and the development of hypertext. All of these premiered at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. This name (The Mother of All Demos) is exclusively to Douglas Engelbart's demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace on December 9, 1968. The remarkable thing about this Demo was that it was the first public demonstration of NLS which is a computer system (the first of its kind) to include a collaborative real-time editor, revision control, dynamic file linking, object addressing, hypermedia, word processing, hypertext, teleconferencing, video conferencing, and one of the earliest computer mouses.
Without this man, computer systems as we know them would not exist.
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