Douglas C. Engelbart Legacy

This past summer, the technology world lost a great man who helped create a device that would help advance computers into a new era. He was best know for creating the NLS, which consisted of one of the earliest versions of a computer mouse. NLS also contained video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing, dynamic file linking and revision control. This system was presented at The Mother of All Demos, which was the name given to the 1968 convention that demonstrated all of these tools. This achievement was so remarkable because it came before the computer, which allowed for the computer to be more advanced faster than if the NLS wouldn't have been invented.