the Mother of All Demos

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Douglas Engelbart's 1968 demonstration that unveiled the mouse, hypertext, and live collaboration at once.

In 90 minutes in San Francisco, Engelbart's team showed the computer mouse, windows, hypertext links, real-time text editing, and video conferencing - most of the modern desktop, decades early. It earned its nickname retroactively because so much of what everyone now uses appeared, working, in a single sitting.

Also known as: Douglas Engelbart, 1968 demo, NLS

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