come on, party people, everybody knows Xerox copy things. (i can already hear groans from Diggory's direction! )

Right - so: 1968: Invented at Stanford 1973: first appears in a "Manufactured" machine from Xerox (that no-one bought) 1984: Made popular by the Mac.

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ya fren may not be rite on da invention part of mouse... but I'm pretty sure Xerox did have da patent for mouse and GUI... U can check dis out and tell me... http://www.cedmagic.…

Someone reeeeeally creative. MacNN. Heh.

O... thanks for the links... i got those already. My friend claimed that Xerox invented mouse, which i do not believe. However he claimed that Xerox invented it and he would bet h…

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Google really is your friend "Computer Mouse video" gave me this: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html http://vodreal.stanford.edu/engel/03engel200.ram I wonder ho…

Google is your friend: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa081898.htm He was at Stanford. I seem to remember there is even grainy film of a demo of the early mouse on th…

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Monesh

Yes, that thing that you're now holding in your right hand (sorry lefty =P) If not, who did?

Planet "Far Far Away" and Planet "No Life here - move on Earthling" 218 to go.

Maybe it's a test, since I didn't see much content, but there's now a Mac tab at http://www.anandtech.com J

That's the whole reason there's a new amazing announcent by the hubble folks every week. Yea, it does suck that the next telescope isn't going up for a while, but the hubble peopl…

obviously the cnn guys...

Just wondering ...

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LV-426. 220 to go.

This is a cool year for space exploration - not one but two rovers on Mars, Cassini and Huygens at Saturn and Titan, Spaceship One reaching space, Hubble doing the usual amazing st…

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I like this one, which is possibly the most inane, stupid thread in all the forums, courtesy of Mr. Smith.

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