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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. Real by ChrisJC · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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  2. spreading the news. by Alien54 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    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.

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  3. Wither the BT Patent Claim by Beautyon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "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.

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