Stanford Mouse Video Archive 140
serutan writes "Stanford University has a retro-cool series of video clips of a 1968 presentation that foreshadowed the Internet and marked the public debut of the mouse. It is a surreal, weirdly captivating piece of computer history." Part of the site includes a solicitation for those who have memories and stories about the old days of computing, when programs were measured in inches and people felt they were lucky, lucky I tell you, to have ones and zeros.
Re:We saw this recently - its got a hyperlink demo (Score:2, Funny)
Mac users should be ashamed... (Score:5, Funny)
The slashdotting rules for this story (Score:5, Funny)
Younger folks who actually programmed a PDP-anything also can have a quick look.
repost (Score:4, Funny)
British Telecom, Hyperlinking And Mr. Englebart [slashdot.org] Slashdot, 28 Sep 2000
So Xerox stole thier ideas from these guys??? (Score:3, Funny)
* Apple rips off Xerox
* Xerox rips off Stanford's Augmentation Research Center
Who did Stanford's Augmentation Research Center rip off?
Back in MY day... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh yeah? We had to use the letter 'O'. And when RAM was being developed the only way we could store anything was by building up static electricity and using our fingers. And then sometimes we didn't even have socks. Other times we didn't have carpet. Any we liked it that way.
It's not that it's closed source... (Score:3, Funny)
Hell, my desktop OS is Windows.
I never install Real because it's an ugly, ad-laden, untrustworthy piece of spyware crap.
Besides, I'd rather have files I can download, because streaming...[buffering (10%)]...in any...[buffering(15%)]...format...[buffering(20%)
And as for MS being an illegal monopoly, I'll just say I think Be's argument is much more valid than Netscape's, because unlike Netscape, Be's flagship product didn't suck.
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