Douglas Engelbart

Engelbart presented his groundbreaking demonstration, widely known as 'The Mother of All Demos,' at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. During this presentation, he introduced real-time collaborative text editing to the public.

Yes, Douglas Engelbart and his team at SRI International filed the patent for the first computer mouse in 1967. It was originally a wooden shell with two metal wheels used to navigate text on a screen.

Engelbart developed the NLS (oN-Line System), a revolutionary computing framework that introduced hypertext and screen windowing. This system laid the foundational concepts for the modern graphical user interface (GUI).

Surprisingly, no, Engelbart never became wealthy from the mouse patent because the technology was owned by his employer, SRI. SRI later licensed the patent to Apple for about $40,000, and the patent expired before personal computers became ubiquitous.