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Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 demonstration brought together the mouse, hypertext, video conferencing, and windowed interfaces. Those capabilities made the presentation a landmark in the development of personal computing.

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30:41to 1968, >> the mother of all demos. >> Yeah, this one's pretty interesting. This was computer scientist Douglas Angelbart. He presented the mother of all demos in San Francisco, California during a presentation at like he was giving a talk. This is pretty huge and way ahead of its time. Um, he debuted the computer mouse, hypertext, video conferencing, windowed user interfaces, and it laid the structural blueprint for modern personal computing. Way ahead of his time. None of it was real, but he was saying this is what we are capable of guys.

31:22>> This is this is crazy because it literally all the we still use all of those things literally right now and today. And this is the prototype for the Steve Jobs demo format that made Apple famous. >> Yeah. I mean, this is what inspired this is what inspired Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, the worldwide web, all of it.

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