{"id":7867,"date":"2018-12-09T22:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T06:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2018-12-09T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T06:27:02","slug":"50-years-ago-today-the-mother-of-all-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/09\/50-years-ago-today-the-mother-of-all-demos\/","title":{"rendered":"50 years ago today: &#8220;The Mother Of All Demos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been hearing about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mother_of_All_Demos\">this seminal presentation<\/a>\u00a0for ages, but until now I\u2019d never actually seen it. It\u2019s well worth a look at what must\u2019ve been a jaw-dropping peek into so many breakthroughs that remain central to our lives today:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL76DBC8D6718B8FD3\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute staged a 90-minute public multimedia demonstration\u2026 [F]or the first time, the public saw <strong>a computer mouse<\/strong>, which controlled a networked computer system to demonstrate <strong>hypertext linking, real-time text editing, multiple windows<\/strong> with flexible view control, cathode display tubes, and shared-screen teleconferencing. The 1968 demo presaged many of the technologies we use today, from personal computing to social networking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VScVgXM7lQQ\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via Peyman Milanfar]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been hearing about this seminal presentation\u00a0for ages, but until now I\u2019d never actually seen it. It\u2019s well worth a look at what must\u2019ve been a jaw-dropping peek into so many breakthroughs that remain central to our lives today: On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7869,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}