[FRIAM] Douglas Engelbart's "Mother Of All Demos" circa 1968

[Edward A. Puckett]

I just saw a video of Douglas Engelbart's demo of his group's NLS  
system that was given in San Francisco in 1968.  I was stunned at how  
this demo presages much of today's computer environment, including  
the first mouse, (programmable) word processing, hyperlinking and  
groupware.  Watching this video and observing the codes he inserts to  
affect presentation, I was overcome with a feeling that I was  
watching the genesis of many things, not the least of which is SGML- 
style markup languages.  Though the SGML connection may be tenuous, I  
cannot help but imagine that this "being in the air" influenced SGML.

The video is about an hour and a quarter long, but if you're into  
this sort of history, it's well worth the time.

See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097

Also: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html

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