Notices

1. deshipu@mastodon.technology's status on Friday, 22-Oct-2021 01:18:05 CEST deshipu

   Every article about the invention of computer mouse you can find out there will tell you, that it was invented at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (and subsequently calculate how much they could have earned if they only patented it). And yet, when you watch the Engelbart's Mother of All Demos, 1968, you will notice he uses a computer mouse already, without much fuss about it. PARC was founded in 1970.

   • deshipu@mastodon.technology's status on Friday, 22-Oct-2021 10:57:48 CEST deshipu

     • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

     @ekaitz_zarraga The rewriting of history is extremely common in US, though in this case it wasn't done by that company. This example was meant to demonstrate a more general trend.

     Inventions very rarely are done by a single individual at a particular moment in time. The idea usually appears way earlier and becomes common knowledge in the community of people working on the given subject, until at some point some development makes the idea less impractical, and some entrepreneur applies it and gets lucky.