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Douglas Engelbart: The Guy Who Invented Tomorrow Before Anyone Plugged It In
Daily writing promptWho are some underrated people in history?View all responses /LOGS/BLOG_POST Posted by Eric | May 12, 2026 Some people get statues. Some get billion-dollar companies named after their garage hobbies. Douglas Engelbart got mostly forgotten while modern tech CEOs sell watered-down versions of his ideas wrapped in brushed aluminum and marketing jargon. Humanity really does have a gift for rewarding the loudest guy in the room instead of the smartest one soldering wires at […] -
Les événements du 17 novembre.
En 1970, le pionnier de l’informatique Douglas #Engelbart reçoit le brevet de la première souris d’ordinateur. Il avait déposé sa demande le 21 juin 1967. Engelbart est aussi célèbre pour sa conférence « The Mother of All demos » du 9 décembre 1968, ou il présente les concepts futuristes pour l’époque de la visioconférence, le courrier électronique, et enfin le système hypertexte.
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@bosak 🧵Engelbart blue numbers
How great it is to use a W3C standard link to a particular item in a report published 33 years ago in a 57 year old hypertext system using a Web interface created about 30 years ago.
While the rest of the world randomly trashes links created 5 years ago, or whenever the last juice is squeezed from an article by a once famous author writing for a once respected publisher by any of a myriad of private equity predators.
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@bosak It looks like they already have that document logged.
It contains a copy of one of my favorite Doug Engelbart papers and diagrams!
I think of an Engelbart style Journal as a space to record, cite, and link dialog, external references, and knowledge products for some continuing, broadly defined purposes of an organization or individual.
CODIAK process, Doug Engelbart (1992)
https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/116/#6#engelbart #journal #hypertext #augment
https://archive.org/details/BootstrapCollectiveIQ9703/mode/2up
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Wann und von wem wurde die Computermaus erfunden?
Das war 1964 und diese wurde von Douglas C. Engelbart am Stanford Research Institute erdacht.
Er und sein Team entwickelten in den 1960er Jahren Bitmap-Bildschirme, die erste Computermaus, Hypertext, Vorläufer der grafischen Benutzeroberfläche, einschließlich Telekonferenzen mit gemeinsamem Bildschirm.
Ende 1968 präsentierte er in San Fransisco die erste Videokonferenz, die "Mutter aller Demos".
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Douglas Engelbart
Born 100 Years Ago Today
30 Jan 1925“By ‘augmenting human intellect’ we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.” — Douglas Engelbart (1962)
An essay on Engelbart’s motivation, with links to video and other historical sources on his life and work.
#Engelbart #hypertext #botd
https://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog2386 -
"Doug Engelbart sat under a twenty-two-foot-high video screen, ‘dealing lightning with both hands.’ At least that's the way it seemed to Chuck Thacker, a young Xerox PARC computer designer who was later shown a video of the demonstration that changed the course of the computer world.” — John Markoff
9:00 AM PST 9 Dec, 2008
#Engelbart #Hypertext #UX
#dougday
http://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog912 -
Les événements du 17 novembre.
En 1970, le pionnier de l’informatique Douglas #Engelbart reçoit le brevet de la première souris d’ordinateur. Il avait déposé sa demande le 21 juin 1967. Engelbart est aussi célèbre pour sa conférence « The Mother of All demos » du 9 décembre 1968, ou il présente les concepts futuristes pour l’époque de la visioconférence, le courrier électronique, et enfin le système hypertexte.
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Ha, that’s what “dealing lightning with both hands” really looks like
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IIRC, funding was always a problem.
he thought the future of computing was terminals to servers, not personal computers. this dried up quite a bit of interest/funding as PCs came into focus.
and, like #TedNelson, #Engelbart thought in ways that few others did. they missed much of his wisdom as he was "too early".
i think the biggest blow to his work was the lack of interest by business research labs (Xerox, ATT, IBM, etc.) as they funded mac/pc products instead.
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@bosak 🧵Doug #Engelbart
1968 "Mother of All Demos" with Doug Engelbart & Team (complete) [re-mastered]
Courtesy of the Doug Engelbart Institute YouTube channel. The video’s description includes reference links and transcript.
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@bosak 🧵 Doug #Engelbart
“The complexity of problems facing mankind is outpacing our ability to solve them”
— Doug EngelbartI like Doug’s Introduction to ‘Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework’. He referred to it as the ‘bible’ of his research and explanation of everything he hoped to accomplish.
Doug was like a biblical prophet too, with a soft voice, kind smile, but firm clear vision.
Augment report: https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html#1a1
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Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" was presented 55 years ago today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
It changed the way people thought about computers in the 1960s.
Before Jobs, Before Altman, there was Engelbart.
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#TicketToWatch The Augmentation of Douglas #Engelbart | Full Documentary
via #ChronoMedia https://mprove.de/chrono?q=37.78903,-122.40419&z=13.03&t=0&m=XYarpanet1969&o=0.4&i=ChronoMediapiped: https://piped.video/watch?v=_7ZtISeGyCY&list=PLA7F3A83431B9C10F&index=6
uTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ZtISeGyCY&list=PLA7F3A83431B9C10F&index=6 -
Dealing lightning with both hands... Dec 9, 1968
"Doug Engelbart sat under a twenty-two-foot-high video screen, ‘dealing lightning with both hands.’ At least that's the way it seemed to Chuck Thacker, a young Xerox PARC computer designer who was later shown a video of the demonstration that changed the course of the computer world.” — John Markoff, 'What the Dormouse Said'
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@doriantaylor Yes! Reminds me of
CODIAK process, ‘Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware’, Douglas Engelbart (1992)
https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/116/#6[Alt text includes Engelbart’s summary description]
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Doug Engelbart
30 Jan 1925 - 2 Jul 2013Quotes and resources celebrating the life and work of Douglas C. Engelbart.
Doug was a father of hypertext and of the potential of technology to augment the ability of humans to address the complex and urgent problems challenging our world.
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Doug #Engelbart: »Dreaming of the Future« in 1995:: https://mprove.de/script/95/engelbart/index.html
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Full week seminar on the Augmented Knowledge Workshop, conducted by Doug #Engelbart himself for just $750. Count me in! #timetravel 1976
https://mprove.de/chrono?q=-0.0586,0.00756&z=8.54&m=IFseminaronaugment00augm-2&d=1&s=1&iiif-content=https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/seminaronaugment00augm/manifest.json&c=a -
CW: Reading "Bootstrapping" on Engelbart
Chapter Two: The Chord Keyset and the QWERTY Keyboard is a masterpiece. Thierry Bardini discusses a rejected grant proposal to develop a keyset interface and goes deep into the history of typewriters and #QWERTY to explain the rationale behind #Engelbart's application. But the chapter ends in a slightly surprising way! I like a combination of scientific style that leaves few things uncovered and pretty good storytelling.
The next chapter is about the #mouse.
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@reticuleena Ich lese gerade einen Buch über Douglas #Engelbart und es war schon in 1950er/60er eine Interessante auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema wie freundlich die Maschine seinen könnte. Schon John Backus (FORTRAN-Pionier) hat gemerkt wie sich das Kastendenken unter damals "eingeweihten Priester" entwickelt hat. Ich find der Einsatz Engelbarts interessant (sog. #boostrapping) wo die Menschen und deren Werkzeugue sich gegenseitig unterstützen sollen und damit zusammen wachsen können.
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In case one wonders how #copypaste relates to the invention of a #mouse:
Larry #Tesler, a software engineer explains how he improved editing usability by changing the way the marking, copy and paste worked.
The system he improved upon was #NLS (oNLine System) which Douglas #Engelbart presented during his 1969 "Mother of All Demos", presenting mouse for a first time.
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Rappel : le 9 décembre, il faudra fêter le cinquante-et-unième anniversaire de « la mère de toutes les démos ». (Plein d'anniversaires des années 60.) #Engelbart #NLS #PARC #souris
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Rappel : le 9 décembre, il faudra fêter le cinquante-et-unième anniversaire de « la mère de toutes les démos ». (Plein d'anniversaires des années 60.) #Engelbart #NLS #PARC #souris