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April 23, 2017 | | Comments Off on Bibliography

Bibliography Anonymous. “Goodbye, Computer Mouse.” Communications of the ACM 51, no. 9 (September 2008): 16. Atkinson, Paul. “The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men: The Computer Mouse in the History of Computing.” Design Issues 23, no. 3 (Summer 2007): 49-61. Bardini, Thierry. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Brown, David E. Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the

April 4, 2017 | | Comments Off on About Us

Purpose: Our goal in creating this site was to explore the invention of what we have dubbed the “aglet of the digital world.” We wanted to discuss a piece of technology that is often overlooked and illustrate its revolutionary impact on the way we interact with computers today. No other device fits this description better than the computer mouse. Heather Taylor Heather Taylor is a Junior, graduating in 2018 with a B.A.

April 3, 2017 | | Comments Off on Doug Engelbart and Bill English

Douglas Carl Engelbart Douglas Carl Engelbart was born in 1925, and died only a few years ago in 2013 at the age of eighty-eight [1]. He grew up near Portland, Oregon on a small farm, and went from graduating high school in 1942 to studying electrical engineering at Oregon State University [1]. During World War II, Engelbart enlisted in the Navy and served for two years as a radar technician

February 9, 2017 | | Comments Off on This is another test

The computer mouse is an interesting topic to me mostly because it is a piece of technology that seems overlooked. A lot of people know about how the computer was invented, and even what the first computer looked like. But not many know about the computer’s mouse.           https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/mice/comfort-mouse-4500/4fd-00025