Word: engelbart
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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Lisa, of course, did not spring full blown from the mind of Jobs. Primitive hand controllers have been used with computers for nearly two decades, ever since Stanford Research Institute Scientist Douglas Engelbart built a scurrying table-top gadget in the mid-'60s nicknamed "the mouse." In the early 1970s, researchers at Xerox began improving on Engelbart's design, and soon after, computer experts at the company's Palo Alto research center began using a mouse in a computer language they called Smalltalk. By pointing and pressing buttons, they could send messages to and from objects...