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Douglas C. Engelbart, circa 1968
Stanford Research Institute, Stanford University
Internet pioneer Doug Englebart, also known as the father of the mouse and groupware, has worked since the 1950s developing many of the personal computer technologies we take for granted today. He is perhaps most famous for the live, public demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco on December 9, 1968. There, Engelbart and a team of software developers showed 4,000 stunned spectators a computer with a windows interface, videoconferencing, black on white text, context-sensitive help and a mouse. This demo system linked to a remote mainframe computer, spurred research that led to the development of personal computers, the graphical user interface, dynamic file linking and more advanced networks including the Internet. |
