{"id":7020,"date":"2008-12-09T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/today-is-not-the-mouses-birthday\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:26:07","slug":"today-is-not-the-mouses-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/today-is-not-the-mouses-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is not the mouse’s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK so today may have been the day that the mouse<\/a> was first shown off publicly, forty years ago, but that doesn’t change the fact that Douglas Engelbart<\/a> had a working version of the device four years before the Stanford demonstration.<\/p>\n

Here’s the version he had in 1964, which looks remarkably similar to the model ‘born’ four years later, and not that much worse than the rubbish Dell one I have to use at work.<\/p>\n

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\n(Image via ITKnowledgeExchange<\/a>)<\/p>\n

So while we can’t really say ‘happy birthday’ to the mouse today… I suppose we can at least wish it a very happy unbirthday.<\/p>\n

Oh, and for those still not convinced by the veracity of this claim (it has caused some uncertainty in the office), I quote as my sources, the infallible Wikipedia<\/a> and the 2008 calendar for the Autonomous University of Barcelona<\/a> which happened to include the above picture with the caption “The first mouse, 1964” as its November picture. Case closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK so today may have been the day that the mouse was first shown off publicly, forty years ago, but that doesn’t change the fact that Douglas Engelbart had a working version of the device four years before the Stanford demonstration. Here’s the version he had in 1964, which looks remarkably similar to the model … Continue reading “Today is not the mouse’s birthday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-7020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t