Happy birthday to... the mouse!
Apr. 27th, 2005 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaChances are that you are surfing the web right now thanks to something that went on sale 24 years ago today. On April 27th, 1981, the first computer mouse hit the market when it was sold with the Xerox Star 8010 personal computer.
Granted, the mouse was development for many years before the date, but I think this particular date is the most significant in its history.
(Source: TechRepublic)
Granted, the mouse was development for many years before the date, but I think this particular date is the most significant in its history.
(Source: TechRepublic)
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Date: 2005-04-27 05:16 pm (UTC)OH CRAP!
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Date: 2005-04-27 08:39 pm (UTC)A brief history of nipples.
Date: 2005-04-27 08:52 pm (UTC)'twas a design an IBM engineer developed in order to save the wasted time of moving your hand from the keyboard, to the mouse, and back again - especially for things where all you're going to do is just nudge the cursor a few millimetres anyway.
IBM threw it into the vault because they thought it was a shit idea at the time, until the IBM 701C ThinkPad (with the 'butterfly' keyboard), where the laptop didn't physically have room for a conventional touchpad or trackball. And, well, it worked. And stuff. It's now used on all Thinkpads, and a lot of other brands of laptop too. Of course, everyone hates them because they take a bit of learning, but at least they become good unlike trackpads which are forever to be inaccurate, awkward to use mehs. ;)
(I use the trackpoint at home daily, and an optical mouse + laptop at work... and I have to say, having to move my paws from the keyboard just to poke the mouse for a split second really does take a frustratingly noticable FOREVER compared to the trackpoint. Admittedly you can't play most games on the trackpoint (effectively), but it's all about Appropriate Technology, baby. ;)
Re: A brief history of nipples.
Date: 2005-04-27 08:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-27 11:21 pm (UTC)Re: A brief history of nipples.
Date: 2005-04-28 10:04 am (UTC)Re: A brief history of nipples.
Date: 2005-04-28 10:06 am (UTC)(Which is the reason why IBM supplies a replacement cap right away, which, coincidentally, always gets lost first.)
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Date: 2005-04-29 02:44 am (UTC)