The Mother of All Demos /// Douglas Engelbart

Almost 60 years ago, one man gave a demo of some technologies you might be familiar with.

These were explorations of what could be. A real working show of the power of networked computers. So ahead of its time, it’s tough to comprehend how these ideas influenced the architecture of operating systems we’ve been using for 40+ years.

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The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor.