Creator of a computer mouse died

Engelbart was working on improving the interface while still neither you nor your father and maybe even grandfather did not even know what an interface does. The invention by which we will remember most is the computer mouse.

Perhaps in some way symbolic that the creator of the mouse died at a time when Microsoft and Apple - companies that once depended on the mouse - doing all that quieted and his invention. We live in a world of obsession tablets and touch screens in the power of effort, but does not manage to completely suppress the desktop rodent. Ten years ago we thought the mouse to retire may only interfaces for voice communication, but after the initial development of this branch until now almost entirely died out, at least for the "ordinary people".

Engelbart was born in 1925 in the U.S. state of Oregon, worked in various aspects of computer science for decades, but what will be remembered most is U.S. patent number 3,541,541 - a computer mouse. Engelbart's patent registered in 1967, and it was approved in 1970. To think of that someone from Apple - present to us drew the money and sued all around, the thought of someone from IBM, would enable the creation of clones, but only under special conditions that he remembered someone from Intel, we should all buy mice Intel branded logo ... Engelbart, fortunately, has worked for ARPA, noncommercial agency funded from the U.S. budget, and the time when the entire IT was painted children's idealism, greed came later.

Besides Engelbert mouse worked and Bill English, Engelbartov chief engineer, who is considered to be physically produced the first functional mouse, you can see the picture on the side. Douglas Engelbart has died in California at 89 age.