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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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title: THE MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS
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date: '1968-12-01'
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years:
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- '1968'
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topics:
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- Hardware
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- People
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- Software
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- Videogames
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when: DECEMBER 1968
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image: /media/history/images/timeline_1268_motherdemo_s1.jpg
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oc_id: 59
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221215134358/http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=59
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date: '2022-12-15'
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Back in 1968, one man had a vision. This vision regarded sharing informations. The computer revolution gave the user a massive strength but very little was done to help people to work together.
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Mouse, hyperlinks and email where shown that day by **Doug Engelbart** and his researchers at Stanford during a 90 minute presentation.
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But most of all the desire for open exchange of informations fueled the demonstration. And that desire is still alive today as it needs to be fulfilled.
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Internet and the Open Source movement embodies part of what he wanted to demonstrate.
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Many GUI's concept were shown, as the mouse pointer, copy and paste functions, hierarchical organization of data. We can say that many Xerox PARC studies start probably from here...
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Still that day he talked about the ARPAnet project in which a few computers\
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were linked on a network and that with a certain bandwidth he might present his demo from another town (yes net conference!)
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**The demo itself:**
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