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Doug Engelbart RIP

3 July 2013, 18:17

Inventor of the mouse, involved in the development of GUIs, bitmapped screens, hypertext, and ARPANET, which became the Internet.

Douglas Engelbart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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3 July 2013, 18:26

Didn't do much did he?
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#3

3 July 2013, 19:05

If he'd worked in my office he wouldn't have managed any of that.

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#4

3 July 2013, 19:11

RIP, 'Please Release Me' was a great song but he did let us down in Eurovision.....
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3 July 2013, 20:37

Great man. RIP
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#6

3 July 2013, 22:53

Damn. He was an inspirational man.

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#7

3 July 2013, 22:57

all the greats, dying on us

Englebart
Neil Armstrong
Patrick Moore
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#8

4 August 2020, 15:58

His co-inventor has popped his clogs:

Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91 - BBC News

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