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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. Ivies... by Ando[evilmedic] · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's the Ivy League theme-day on Slashdot!

  2. Re:Real by serutan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This comment gets a score of 4 Insightful??? Uh, okay Beavis.

  3. Re:Mac users should be ashamed... by Lars+T. · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    So you're too stupid to use a one button mouse? Hah, I'm more l33t than you. And I also can clap with one hand

    "Piece o' cake" Bart Simpson

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