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Doug Engelbart Passes Away

Posted by Soulskill on from the rest-in-peace dept.

lpress writes "If you use a mouse, hyperlinks, video conferencing, WYSIWYG word processor, multi-window user interface, shared documents, shared database, documents with images & text, keyword search, instant messaging, synchronous collaboration, or asynchronous collaboration, you can thank Doug Engelbart, who passed away today."

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  1. Wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Doug never worked for Xerox.
    He went from SRI to Tymshare.

    Many people from Doug's lab went to work for PARC

  2. Re:The Mother of All Demos by nyckidd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Same video, much better quality:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY