consolejockey

I saw this posted to one of the many blogs I read, I can’t remember which one. Someone has been cool enough to post Douglas Engelbart’s weirdly accurate demonstration on how people would use computer workstations “in the future.” Originally presented on December 9, 1968 this demo, later called The Mother of All Demos, featured such revolutionary concepts as the mouse (which Engelbart is credited with inventing), copying and pasting, hypertext, video conferencing, and a whole lot more. This demo predicted these features decades before they would see widespread use.