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The mother of all demos
Original announcement of the 1968 Demo, courtesy of Christina Engelbart, the Bootstrap Institute and the Stanford University website.
It was described by as the mother of all demos. On December 9th 1968 Doug Engelbart and a group of researchers from the Augmented Human Intellect (AHI) Research Center at Stanford Research Institute gave a public demonstration of how they saw IT would change the way people work.
The 90 minute demo to 1000 computer professional was the first public showing of a mouse, hypertext linking and significantly the concept of personal computing.