
RIP - Doug Englebart
RIP - Doug Englebart

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Re: RIP - Doug Englebart
RIP
He was quite the visionary in the early computer days.
He was quite the visionary in the early computer days.
Re: RIP - Doug Englebart
I remember seeing an early mouse at a computer store in what had to be around 1980. I remember thinking it would never be nearly as useful or widely used as the joystick.
In my defense I was like 6 or 7 at the time.
In my defense I was like 6 or 7 at the time.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: RIP - Doug Englebart
Before GUI the mouse as next to useless.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: RIP - Doug Englebart
They should have right clicked and saved him
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: RIP - Doug Englebart

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: RIP - Doug Englebart
Too late... He's clicked the bucket!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?