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Douglas Engelbart

Doug Engelbart’s invention of the modern mouse, along with Xerox’s contibution of the trackball, was such a phenomenal success after the computer itself, that for every household that has a computer, we can almost automatically assume that they hold on a mouse.
 
Nevertheless, apparently the idea of the mouse did not take off until much [...]

Doug Engelbart Autograph Essay

Doug Engelbart, born in 1925, is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent. First of all, I cannot help but to feel ashamed of my ignorance to such a prominent figure in the human history. And as I explore his personalities, I realized the many similarities between us yet as I probe further, I [...]