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"Even if you tweet, snap and poke, you’ve probably never heard of Douglas Engelbart, an engineer who died in 2013."

" Before Engelbart, computers were as big as rooms and used mostly for crunching numbers. But in the late ’60s, at the Stanford Research Institute, Engelbart invented almost everything your personal computer has today: a mouse, the marvels of hypertext, screen sharing and more. In the “Mother of All Demos” in 1968, he made real-time edits to documents nearly 40 years before Google Docs hit screens; video chatted with friends long before Skype’s 2003 arrival; and resized windows years before Microsoft entered the fray in 1975. "

"If he’d been British, Engelbart would have been knighted, but the Portland, Oregon, native instead lived out the rest of his years as an unsung hero, trying to fry even bigger fish in Silicon Valley. His blueprint of the Internet was radically different from today’s profit-driven, streamlined version."


“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing,” said Engelbart, and as it turns out, he held all the right cards."





https://www.ozy.com/flashback/who-lo...c1fc106f66bb56





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