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Doug’s Demo Sequel: 1969 (dougengelbart.org)
58 points by gjvc on Nov 2, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


He introduces the mouse pointer as bug:

"So I can sit here and move this and point quite accurately and I never look down on my hand. I'm looking at that spot on the screen that we call a bug and this thing we call a mouse. They've been with us long enough so these names are carved in stone now."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odv_vNFGOX4&t=911


In the original demo [1] a year prior he calls the pointer a "tracking spot" and of the mouse: "I don't know why we call it a mouse -- sometimes I apologise for it. It started that way and we never did change it."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY


I thought it was always very obvious why it's called a mouse - the cable is suggestive of a tail.




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