Engelbart's 1968 demo unveiled the mouse, hypertext, windows, video conferencing, and live collaborative editing in a single 90-minute sitting.
"The Mother of All Demos" was a landmark computer demonstration, named retroactively, of developments by Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center. It was presented at the Association for Computing Machinery / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE)—Computer Society's Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, by Douglas Engelbart, on December 9, 1968.[1]
Sutherland's 1963 thesis invented interactive computer graphics and constraint-based drawing, the direct ancestor of every CAD tool and GUI.
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Bret Victor's takedown of 'pictures under glass' and a plea to design interfaces for capable hands, not just one numb fingertip.
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The 1973 machine that already had the GUI, mouse, Ethernet, and WYSIWYG editing a full decade before the industry got around to copying it.
Xerox Alto – exhibited at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn.
Graham's Blub paradox and the case that a more powerful language was Viaweb's real competitive weapon against better-funded rivals.
April 2001, rev. April 2003
The man who spent a whole career on augmenting human intellect, and whose one demo set an agenda interface design is still working through.
Douglas Engelbart