The glorious inelegance of the 1990s family computer

I’ll give you part of the second sentence because he wasn’t in the consumer computer business as such, but Douglas Engelbart, end of discussion.

In addition to inventing the mouse, he came up with windowed interfaces, copying and pasting between applications, and groupware. Those are only a few items from a very long list. Steve Jobs got hold of some of Engelbart’s work via Xerox.

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