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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. Guess he got first post by Tim12s · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Guess he got first post

  2. RIP, good sir. by Deathspawner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thanks for all of your contributions to our computing.

  3. Riding Bikes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I got to see Doug speak about ten years ago. One thing he mentioned is that you can't let ease of use concerns limit capability. Ease of use is important but it can be sacrificed if necessary to give advanced capability. The example he gave was a bicycle. It's much more difficult to use than a tricycle but the benefits of bikes over trikes are so great that almost everyone goes through the effort to learn to use a bike instead of settling for a trike.