Mouse-40 years old

We are using the desktop or laptop everyday, do you ever think of using the pc without mouse would be convenient. Some can use the keyboard for all purpose they wont be feeling discomfort without mouse.
Do you know how Old the mouse is?
It is 40 years old, it has celebrated 40th birthday on December 8Th, i.e.,
It is going to get into 41 age..
In 1968 Douglas Engelbart has invented the mouse, Around 1000 persons who joined together for a Technical seminar has viewed the mouse first time.
It has been called has pointing Device on those days, it is made up of wood with two wheels attached to it on bottom, and it is used to highlight a text on the computer and it was the only purpose it has been used at that time.

 

Haha that is quite charming!

 

thought the 40 years old mouse is Mickey mouse lol anyway, hmm very interesting information about computer mouse, do you have any pictures of 40 years old computer mouse?

 

that' damn mouse is older than me..

 

it be cool to see a picture of that)))

 

I didn't realize it was that old. I'd like to see a pic of it as well.

I'll post it up if I can find it

 

ha ha.. thanks for telling us,, we ll celebrate its b'day today.

 

I wonder how does first mouse looks like..?

 

yeah exactly... how did it look??? anyone pics???

 

I got up the info frm a magazine, okay i try to find out same magazine and try to put that image over here... if the pic is available in magazine... Any one tried out in google to get the pic?

 

Wow, that's like twice my age. Cool.

 

Here is, I found it.

 

Wow thanks to the mouse things are easier to use .. Just point it and there we are

 

chip of the old block really one of those inventions destined to change our
lives forever (like tv) great to see it's origins and celebrated for it's humbleness,
simplicity and versatility!





ROOFIS

 

wow, cool stuff

 

Wow that thing looks...surprisingly, it's not even that bad looking lol

Cool facts, though!

 

Thanks for searching out and publishing here, i tried in the magazine there is no photo in it.....

 

Soon we'll be waving our arms in front of the screen and not using the mouse. Unfortuntely we'll only be able to do it for 15 mins at a time due to fatigue