Douglas Engelbart, best known as the inventor of the computer mouse, has died at age 88. During his lifetime, Engelbart made numerous groundbreaking contributions to the computing industry, paving the way for videoconferencing, hyperlinks, text editing, and other technologies we use daily. The Computer History Museum was first to report the news via Twitter. Perhaps the pioneer's most well-known moment came on December 19th, 1968, when he demonstrated the "mouse" — an unheard of concept at the time — before an audience at Brooks Hall in San Francisco. As we wrote back in March, he went on to demonstrate other technologies taken for granted today:
He showed off WYSIWYG editing with embedded hyperlinks; he combined text with...
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