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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. First Post by critic666 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Woo hoo

  2. Stanford's history in technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

    +MONDAY MORNING+
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    +TUESDAY MORNING+
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    +WEDNESDAY MORNING+
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    +THURSDAY MORNING+
    Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
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    +FRIDAY MORNING+
    Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
    +FRIDAY EVENING+
    Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

    +SATURDAY MORNING+
    Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
    +SATURDAY EVENING+
    Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

    +SUNDAY MORNING+
    Cmdr Taco: Today is the Lord's day.
    +SUNDAY AFTERNOON+
    Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*