liqmat wrote:snorg wrote:liqmat wrote:Call me ignorant, but I never knew about this amazing demo that has technologies being demonstrated long before they were affordable and mainstream. I must live under the biggest rock on the planet. Either way, super amazing to watch.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/10/mother-of … th-anniversary/
Douglas Englebart is a legend. He and his team at Xerox PARC actually invented the modern PC as we use it today, just nobody could afford it and Xerox apparently wasn't interested in marketing it or making it affordable. Apple and later Microsoft basically stole the concept for their respective operating systems but it was Englebart's group that originally invented this stuff.
And yes, you live under a rock 😁
You can poke fun of me, but honestly had no idea about this guy. I knew the Xerox story, but not this one.
I was only gently poking fun, it certainly wasn't in mean-spirited sense.
While I wouldn't file this under universal knowledge, I've seen write-ups on him before in both Wired and Hackaday and at least one other site, so I figured it would be more common knowledge among the crowd here.
There are a lot of brilliant minds in the tech field that don't get nearly their due, but not much you can do but try and spread the word.