On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
If you want to see a real killer demo, check out the 1968 demo of Doug
Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center.
Yes, I often mention that one.
They should a actual, functional system with hyperlinks, a basic GUI,
the mouse, video conferencing, custom computer furniture, etc.
AFAIK, he invented a lot of things: not only the mouse, but also
undo/redo, copy/cut/paste, and foldable trees; also it might have been the
first implementation of hyperlinks, but the concept is usually attributed
to Vannevar.
when most people were excited to be using the terminal:
BTW, back then, a "terminal" usually didn't have a monitor. If you had
one, then what you had had to be called "Video Terminal" (VT) to make sure
that people knew that you had those newfangled monitors. Else, terminals
were usually typewriters equipped with a serial port. This explains some
things in computer history, like how old UNIX "plain text" often used the
backspace code (0x08) to mean "superimpose two characters", and especially
in combination with underscore to mean underline.
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