Stanford Mouse Video Archive

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.

Comments

Re:We saw this recently - its got a hyperlink demo

[blane.bramble]

That's the beauty of hypertext and hyperlinking, you don't need to duplicate the data, you can link to it multiple times from multiple sites!

Real

[ChrisJC]

And why can't we have these clips in MPEG or something that everybody can see?

spreading the news.

[Alien54]

Of course, by spreading the link to those very videos around the net, we make sure the almost anyone who cares knows that BT is just being a bit greedy. and very foolish.

God, I'd love to see this on the national news someplace.

Wither the BT Patent Claim

[Beautyon]

"Doug demonstrates working with a graphic file tagged with hyperlinked items. Clicking on a link in the graphic, Doug jumps to separate items, such as texts, linked to the graphic."

We call this Prior Art.

Re:proprietary video formats in education

[PoiBoy]

What really bothers me are people like you who embrace open source code like it's as precious as the Holy Virgin Mary.

Real is a perfectly fine format to use to distribute this type of stuff. RealPlayer is available for Win, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc. It's not like it costs you money or is not available for most computers.

Pull the fucking stick out of your ass and realize that not everything has to be open source. There are countless perfectly acceptable closed-source programs, and RealPlayer is among them.

The reason to hate Microsoft is not because they are a monopolist but because they are a monopolist which has been found guilty of breaking the law on multiple occassions and has refused to reform their behavior.

Go ahead, mod me down to -1, Troll. I've been at the karma cap for so fucking long that I'm willing to burn it back down to zero JUST SO I CAN TELL THESE OPEN-SOURCE ZEALOTS TO GO TO HELL AND GET INTO THE REAL WORLD!