The Mouse Is 45 Years Old

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It is hard to believe that the computer mouse is 45 years old already. Where does the time go?

Yes, it was on December 9th, 1968, long before Windows was even a twinkle in Bill Gates' eye, that the little product made its first appearance. Years earlier, Douglas Engelbart filed a patent for a device he developed in 1963 at Stanford University. However, it took until 1966 for Patent number 3,541,541 to be granted -- fast by today's standards.
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The year was 1985 and I had a Commodore 64, a local store Service Merchandise had a mouse for sale, or a 300 baud modem, both were around $40 I think. I had enough money for one, I chose the modem and never looked back! Plus there was like one program that I knew of that used a mouse, which was some graphics program which I never used.
 
This is a lie, everyone knows that Steve Jobs invented the mouse, it just happened to be years after they were already in available! :D
 
My first mousing experience was in the early 80's on a mac. I have a feeling mice will be around for at least another 10 years.
 
Gweenz said:
My first mousing experience was in the early 80's on a mac. I have a feeling mice will be around for at least another 10 years.
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It's still the most efficient method of input in the majority of situations. Things like touch are only more efficient in a handful of applications. The mouse, or something like the mouse, will probably be around for a while.
 
first saw a pc mouse in action at the residence of a 3M researcher in 1980 - I should have been more impressed
 
And what's interesting is that mice were a bit controversial when they started to go mainstream in the 80s, because you know, keyboard is best!
 
2013-1963=45? hmm my math must really be getting bad
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A lot of things related to tech have difficulty when determining "when was it born".. i.e. Google has celebrated it's birthday on several different days. Apparently, according to Gizmodo, the mouse was born on the day it was first presented as a reasonably functioning device to the world..

On December 9th, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart—along with 17 researchers from Stanford—gave a 90-minute live public demonstration of the technology they'd been working on for the previous 6 years.
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