Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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The Mother of All Demos was "a landmark computer demonstration of [...] many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor."

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The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

"The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that ar...

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Alan Levine @cogdog@cosocial.ca
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@stefanStefan Bohacek It's hard to underscore how monumental The Demo was in 1968. I was lucky to be there for the 40th and work on a web site for the 50th, but mostly to meet Doug in 2006.

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Doug and Doug

Doug Engelbart now (Dec 2006) and broadcasting the famous Mother of All Demos (1968). I was fortunate to be at the NMC Board meeting where Doug was our guest - I mashed up this image and have used it in almost every technology presentation I have done.

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