Douglas Engelbart in 2008 Alex Handy / Wikimedia Commons
‘WICHO’”/> J. PEDREIRA ‘WICHO’ died July 2 at 88 years old Douglas Engelbart, a name that does not sound to almost anyone but was the inventor, along with Bill Inglés, computer mouse .
In addition, along with his team’s Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute, Engelbart held on December 8, 1968 which ended up being known as ‘the mother of all demos’, the first public demonstration of a computer system named oN-Line System (NLS) that used a mouse, interactive text and graphics, video, email and hypertext, sowing many ideas that powerfully influence the development of the computer industry, although it would take time to bear fruit.
take so long in fact that when mice became popular, something began to happen with the introduction of the Apple Macintosh in 1984, Engelbart, nor Inglés, nor the SRI received a single hard because the patent had expired.
Decades class=”ladillo”> waiting
Engelbart had already since 1945 thinking of possibilities that computers could provide a platform for information access , inspired especially by article As We May think , How could think of Vannevar Bush, which proposed making all information accessible by the widest possible audience through a microfilm-based device he called Memex and greatly influenced many of the pioneers of the development of computing.
Engelbartcomputers improved the ability of humans to manipulate ideas and symbols
But Engelbart’s vision proved too radical for even conceived of computing and computers as tools for increasing the capabilities of humans allowing them to manipulate ideas and symbols in ways never seen before was willing to obviate the ease of use for the sake of this improved capabilities .
He believed that the ‘knowledge worker’ would be interested in investing the hours that are necessary to acquire sufficient skill to the NLS because then it would be able to go increasingly taking itself and its interaction with the system to evolve this into a positive feedback process.
On the other hand, proved pretty bad managing people and working groups and was unable or failed to convey his vision to his colleagues , which mostly ended in Xerox PARC, where he ended up putting the ease of use as one of the fundamental requirements of any system, which Engelbart saw as a betrayal of their ideals.
Anyway, what is no doubt that this demonstration of NLS, along with the aforementioned article by Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson’s Xanadu Proyexto that basically defined a network of computers connected together with the information contained in them linked by hypertext, are three of the main pillars of the computer and internet as we know them today.
Demonstration of Douglas Engelbart in 1968 on their creations in personal computing (in English):
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