The computer mouse is 40 years old!

Posted December 9, 2008 by Spartacus under under Computers

Today, 9th December 2008, the computer mouse celebrates it’s 40th anniversary!
40 years ago today Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the world’s first Computer mouse.
The first mouse that Dr Engelbart demonstrated at the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) was made of wood and had one only button.
He demonstrated how the mouse had two tracking wheels to track from [...]

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One Millionth Computer Mouse

Posted December 3, 2008 by Spartacus under under Computers

Logitech, the swiss computer keyborad and mouse manufacturer, has announced that it has manufactured it’s one millionth computer mouse!
Logitech’s announcement comes just ahead of the 40th anniversary of the computer mouse, as demonstrated on 9th December 1968 by Douglas Engelbart, and at a time when analysts are claiming that the days of the mouse are [...]

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