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Douglas Engelbart, Father of the Computer Mouse, Dies at Age 88
7/4/2013 4:01:21 AM



Douglas C. Engelbart, one of the inventors of the computer mouse and a computer visionary, has died at the age of 88, ABC News has confirmed. Engelbart died on Tuesday evening at his home in Atherton, Calif.
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RE: Douglas Engelbart, Father of the Computer Mouse, Dies at Age 88
7/4/2013 7:20:20 AM

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RE: Douglas Engelbart, Father of the Computer Mouse, Dies at Age 88
7/4/2013 7:33:53 AM

The First Mouse

Invented by Doug Engelbart in the early 1960s at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), it used two moving wheels 90 degrees apart. Most mechanical mice are still made this way, but the wheels are inside, and the ball moves the wheels.(Image courtesy of The Bootstrap Institute.)

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RE: Douglas Engelbart, Father of the Computer Mouse, Dies at Age 88
7/4/2013 7:45:48 AM
Rest in peace Douglas Engelbar!!

He will be remembered all time for his contribution.



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