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Stanford Mouse Video Archive

Posted by chrisd on from the fun-with-a-soldering-iron dept.

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.

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  1. Re:We saw this recently - its got a hyperlink demo by rsklnkv · · Score: 2, Funny

    So basically, everything on the net now works like the Kevin Bacon game : Every bit of it can be connected within five hyperlinks or less.

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  2. Mac users should be ashamed... by codexus · · Score: 5, Funny

    even the first mouse had 3 buttons! ;)

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  3. The slashdotting rules for this story by Spackler · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you were not born when this event took place (1968) please step aside and wait until tomorrow to view the site. This way, us older nerds with the short memories can have a chance at it.

    Younger folks who actually programmed a PDP-anything also can have a quick look.

  4. repost by joshwa · · Score: 4, Funny

    *sigh* ...

    British Telecom, Hyperlinking And Mr. Englebart Slashdot, 28 Sep 2000

  5. So Xerox stole thier ideas from these guys??? by JohnDenver · · Score: 3, Funny

    * Microsoft rips off Apple
    * Apple rips off Xerox
    * Xerox rips off Stanford's Augmentation Research Center

    Who did Stanford's Augmentation Research Center rip off?

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  6. Back in MY day... by pizen · · Score: 2, Funny

    people felt they were lucky, lucky I tell you, to have ones and zeros.

    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.

  7. It's not that it's closed source... by Pope+Slackman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't really mind closed source.
    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%)] ...sucks...[buffering(35%)]...my...[buffering(50%) ]...arse.

    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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