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The Mother of All Demos - Incredible demonstration of a computer from 1968 - 1968 computer demonstration featuring windows, collaborative work, mouse and video conferencing.
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The Mother of All Demos - Incredible demonstration of a computer from 1968 - 1968 computer demonstration featuring windows, collaborative work, mouse and video conferencing.
If you were to think about the state of computing in the late 1960's, you'd likely think about punch cards, basic text-only displays and unintuitive button interfaces. However, a conference by Doug Engelbert in December 1968 shows a live demonstration of the "oN-Line System" (NLS), which shows so many features that are comparable to modern day computing. The demonstration included a live video call to collaboratively work on a document, a mouse interface to select text and "hyperlink" to...
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