Belated Birthday Greetings to the Computer Mouse

Mice are small and warm and fit in our palms cozily. Some have three buttons, some have two and a wheel, some have three buttons where one of them is also a wheel. Some have only one ball, like Hitler, and some don’t even have that.
Computer mouse, the pointing device, celebrated its 40th birthday sometime during the last week. I wish it many many happy returns of the day.
In 1968, Doug Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute first created a carved wooden block mounted on wheels, with a long cable trailing out the back. Xerox developed the …read more