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The Mother of All Demos

TitleThe Mother of All Demos
Publication TypeVideo
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsEngelbart D
Date Published07/2012
Publisher SiteYouTube
Abstract

"The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor." (YouTube)

Notes

The video captures an event that took place on 9 December 1968. It is described in some detial on this site:

URLhttp://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY
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