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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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],
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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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],
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"params": {
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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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}
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}
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}
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<p><img src="/media/history/images/timeline_1268_motherdemo_s1.jpg"/></p> <p><br/> 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.<br/> <br/> Mouse, hyperlinks and email where shown that day by <b> Doug Engelbart</b> and his researchers at Stanford during a 90 minute presentation. <br/> <br/> 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. <br/> <br/> Internet and the Open Source movement embodies part of what he wanted to demonstrate.<br/> <br/> 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...<br/> <br/> Still that day he talked about the ARPAnet project in which a few computers<br/> were linked on a network and that with a certain bandwidth he might present his demo from another town (yes net conference!)</p> <p><img src="/media/history/images/timeline_1268_doug_s1.jpg"/></p> <br/><br/> <b>The demo itself:</b>
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