engelbart

I interviewed Doug Engelbart in the late 80's when I worked at Autodesk.

I would highly recommend looking at the doug engelbart institute website[1].

Anyone interested in Doug Engelbart and his pioneering work at Stanford Research Institute (or computers in general) should check out What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry [0].

The problem with the Engelbart comparison is that there are countless other development environments, many of them free and/or not in a dialect of C and/or available via git, while the Mother of All Demos was unique.

[1] such as Kay, Ritchie, Dijkstra, Engelbart or even Matsumoto, Van Rossum, Eich, Crockford.

Engelbart's site also has a PDF of his marked up copy of the essay from his SRI days.

The general UI, though, came from Douglas Engelbart's late '60s oN-Line System (NLS), the subject of the Mother of All Demos.

Engelbart was so frustrated because he had more great ideas, but they were difficult to develop and he couldn’t get funding.

Well, it is probably a joke, but anyone familiar with Engelbart's mother of all demos would certanly see a vague similarity...

You don't actually use a mouse or web browser made by Doug Engelbart, do you?

I for one carry on his work by keeping the links outside the file, as he did.” – Ted Nelson, eulogizing Doug Engelbart.

And when I got to the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference this weekend, I went and watched Engelbart's presentation.

I for one carry on his work by keeping the links outside the file, as he did.” – Ted Nelson, eulogizing Doug Engelbart.

Past predictions about the future of the industry have always had currency on Hacker News, from pre-electronic sci-fi like Wells' World Brain to Engelbart's 1968 "mother of all demos" to mid-'90s attempt to get a handle on the internet, and so on and so forth.

Engelbart's site also has a PDF of his marked up copy of the essay from his SRI days.

The general UI, though, came from Douglas Engelbart's late '60s oN-Line System (NLS), the subject of the Mother of All Demos.

Engelbart was so frustrated because he had more great ideas, but they were difficult to develop and he couldn’t get funding.