I have always wanted to see a video of Englebart's famous 1968 demo
of the mouse, hypertext, videoconferencing etc.
It just occurred to me to try to find it as realvideo online, and
sure enough:
http://www.google.com/search?q=englebart+demo+realvideo
->
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
Fascinating stuff... I wonder what it takes to archive realvideo
streams.
> THE DEMO
>
> On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17
> researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center
> at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a
> 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS,
> they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was
> a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at
> the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by
> about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of
> the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many
> innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object
> addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen
> collaboration involving two persons at different sites
> communicating over a network with audio and video interface.
>
> The original 90-minute video of this event is part of the
> Engelbart Collection in Special Collections of Stanford
> University. This original video has been edited into 35 segments
> and reformatted as RealVideo streaming video clips. A brief
> abstract of the subject matter treated in each segment is
> provided below.
more info on Englebart:
http://www.bootstrap.org/org.htm#Douglas
> Douglas Engelbart, Ph.D. 1
>
> Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute founder and Director, has an
> unparalleled 30-year track record in predicting, designing, and
> implementing the future of organizational computing. From his
> early vision of turning organizations into augmented knowledge
> workshops, he went on to pioneer what is now known as
> collaborative hypermedia, knowledge management, community
> networking, and organizational transformation. 1A
>
> Well-known technological firsts include the mouse, display
> editing, windows, cross-file editing, outline processing,
> hypermedia, and groupware. Integrated prototypes were in full
> operation under the NLS system, as early as 1968. In the last
> decade of its continued evolution, thousands of users have
> benefited from its unique team support capabilities. 1B
linked from
http://www.w3.org/History.html
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