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This week is the 40th anniversary of the "Mother of all Demos", Douglas Engelbart's presentation of a new computing system called NLS (or Online System) at the Fall Joint Computer Conference at Stanford University. Why is this important? Because it is the demo that first introduced the world to the concept of the computer mouse, hypertext links, and on-screen text editing. This demo is amazing in the fact that it combined video monitors and cameras with computer images. Check out the video of this historic demo.

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