Stanford Mouse Video Archive

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Posted by chrisd on Wednesday February 20, 2002 @12:55AM 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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60's stuff by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 01:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hey man, whacky, groovy and crazy, man.
/me smokes his cannabis
1. Re:60's stuff by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 01:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  that shit will break your bones
Ivies... by Ando[evilmedic] · 2002-02-20 01:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's the Ivy League theme-day on Slashdot!
faggotz! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 01:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

check check, one two
t e s t by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 01:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

please ignore this post

and OSS projects
Re:Ones and Zeroes by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 01:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

How come your friend/foe button is yellow and pops as freak?
Previous art by Aceticon · 2002-02-20 01:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Mice have been around for longer than that - i heard they even spread the plague in the middle ages.

Brought to you by: Yet another animal joke

Slashdoters: If you have no sense of humor or believe that moderators have no sense of humor, you can assign a -6 Reason Modifier to all replies moderated as "Funny". Just check your preferences
1. Re:Previous art by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 01:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  i think you'll find that was rats....and it was parasites that lived on the rat that spread the disease
It's back.... by linuxci · 2002-02-20 01:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

After some DNS problems goatse.cx is back ;)
huh by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 01:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hmmm.. what an excelent job the moderators have done - Moderation Totals: Offtopic=1, Total=1. How on earth is a comment about the first mouse having 3 buttons of topic? troll or flame about Mac users - possibly, but off topic????
DO NOT MOD PARENT UP AS FUNNY by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-20 01:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

it's just not. please - i'm begging you. leave this post a 1 or mod it down. thanks.
In my day.. by fadeaway · 2002-02-20 02:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a bottle o' bawls.
A bottle o' WARM bawls.
Without the bottle.
OR the bawls!
In a filthy, cracked cup.
We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
Aye. BECAUSE we were poor.
Contacting the ISPs? by AshsZ · 2002-02-20 02:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Come on! Proabbly none of them speak English!
Re:Real by serutan · 2002-02-20 09:20 · Score: 1, Offtopic

This comment gets a score of 4 Insightful??? Uh, okay Beavis.
Re:Mac users should be ashamed... by Lars+T. · 2002-02-20 10:57 · 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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To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck