![]() This was the first system to market with a really usable mouse-driven graphical windowing interface, and it swiftly found a niche for word processing and desktop publishing. In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh. ![]() That said, they often coexisted with the first real attempts at such a system. However, the 8-bit home computer systems I’ve looked at here don’t generally live up to this promise. We have, essentially, known what we wanted computers to look like for longer than microcomputers have existed at all. Engelbart’s presentation was the first to publicly demonstrate all of these elements in a single system. The 90-minute presentation demonstrated for the first time many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor. …a complete computer hardware and software system called the oN-Line System or, more commonly, NLS. Engelbart presented a mostly functional prototype of an early 21st-century computing environment. In this presentation, eventually dubbed The Mother of All Demos, Mr. On December 9, 1968, Douglas Engelbart produced a 90 minute presentation on a computer system he called the “oN-Line System” or NLS.
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