Nice story regarding Douglas C. Engelbart, the guy who invented the mouse. Had heard of this guy before, but didn't realize he was really responsible for much more. This makes it clear he envisioned the entire paradigm of modern personal computing, before it was really technically possible. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/technology/douglas-c-engelbart-inventor-of-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-88.html?ref=technology
i could have sworn, watching a special on steve jobs, some guy at apple claimed to have made the first mouse out an empty tissue roll, and scotch tape or something.
I saw that too, but they didn't invent it, they just worked out a particular design for manufacture. It was part of what Jobs saw demoed at Xerox. May have been the first mass produced mouse, though.
it is all about marketing, but someone has to invent. i suppose the engineer's all work in anonymity these days.
It was probably ever thus. Someone has to recognize the value of what they do . Xerox is more famous now for what they failed to do than what they actually did. Jobs got it, xerox didn't.
