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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: '2026-09-17'
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author: yann64
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banner: /media/history/images/timeline_1268_motherdemo_s1.jpg
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summary: A mouse, windows and hypertext, shown to an audience in 1968.
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In December 1968 Douglas Engelbart presented the mouse, on-screen windows, hypertext and shared editing in a single session. The history entry on [the mother of all demos](/history/the-mother-of-all-demos/) has been recovered.
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For what came next, see the entry on the [Xerox Alto](/history/xerox-alto/), the research machine that turned these ideas into a desktop.
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