While the mouse was built in 1964, it remained relatively unknown until . On this day, Engelbart delivered a 90-minute presentation at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, now famously known as the Mother of All Demos .
The audience of 1,000 computer professionals witnessed a paradigm shift. No one had ever seen a cursor move fluidly in two dimensions under hand control. The mouse, then called a “bug” (SRI later changed the name due to the negative connotation of computer bugs), was the star. 1st mouse
The inaugural mouse was a study in functional minimalism. While the mouse was built in 1964, it