{"id":858,"date":"2024-10-08T09:41:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T09:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/?p=858"},"modified":"2024-10-08T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T09:41:45","slug":"mother-of-all-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/silicon-age\/mid-century-innovations\/mother-of-all-demos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of all Demos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Douglas Engelbart\u2019s 1968 demo, known as \u201cThe Mother of All Demos,\u201d was a huge moment in computing history. He introduced key technologies like the mouse, hypertext, and early versions of windows\u2014all things we use daily now. He even showed video conferencing and real-time collaboration, way ahead of its time. This demo shaped how we think about interacting with computers and paved the way for personal computing and the internet. It\u2019s one of the reasons modern UX and interaction design exist today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Engelbart\u2019s 1968 demo, known as \u201cThe Mother of All Demos,\u201d was a huge moment in computing history. He introduced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mid-century-innovations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}