obituary – Post Position https://nickm.com/post Nick Montfort Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:56:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://nickm.com/post/wp-content/stuff/cropped-favicon-32x32.png obituary – Post Position https://nickm.com/post 32 32 Doug Engelbart, 88, Inventor of … https://nickm.com/post/2013/07/doug-engelbart-88-inventor-of/ https://nickm.com/post/2013/07/doug-engelbart-88-inventor-of/#respond Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:55:20 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3133 Continue reading "Doug Engelbart, 88, Inventor of …"

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… the mouse; the chording keyboard for use with the mouse; the demo; videoconferencing; real-time online collaboration and collaborative editing; the first practical, working hypertext system, which was also a hypermedia system; word processing; dynamic file linking; version control; computer augmentation of human intelligence; and the bootstrapping of human intellectual processes.

Engelbart died on July 2. (Los Angeles Times obituary.)

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The inventor of the MITS Altair 8800, the inexpensive kit computer that is widely considered to be the first personal computer, has died at age 68.

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