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

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

The full recording of Douglas Engelbart's 1968 demonstration, which introduced the mouse, hypertext, video conferencing, word processing, and real-time collaborative editing. It runs about 100 minutes.

HN treats it as an essential piece of computing history that shows how many modern interface ideas were already solved in 1968.

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