Douglas Engelbart, a technologist who conceived the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market, died on Tuesday night. He was 88.
His eldest daughter, Gerda, said by telephone that her father died of was kidney failure.
The inventor first developed a computer mouse in the 1960s and patented his creation in the 1970s, though the notion of operating a computer with an outside tool was ahead of its time. When Engelbart first created the mouse it was simply a wooden shell covering two metal wheels.
ADVERTISEMENT
Engelbart’s mouse patent had a 17-year life span and so the technology entered the public domain in 1987, meaning that he couldn’t collect royalties on the mouse when it was most in use.
1 bnu00a0Approx number of computer mouse that have been sold since mid-1980su00a0
u00a0
Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest news!" Click here!
