The computer mouse was a pointing device invented in the 1960s by Douglas Engelbart as a means of avoiding the use of the finger to smear dirt and oil on glass particularly at ATMs and PoS stations.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s so weird that I’m typing this reply on a device millions of times more capable than that machine while at the same time, that machine feels a million times more magical to me.

  • groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Wow, this brought back a bunch of memories.

    “I ran out of mouse pad.” “That’s ok grandma just pick the mouse up and put it down where you want it.” Picks up mouse, puts it down in the same place “Ok now what?”