{"id":310,"date":"2024-01-11T00:08:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/?page_id=310"},"modified":"2024-01-11T00:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:08:32","slug":"mid-century-innovations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/mid-century-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Century Innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why was the demo by Douglas Engelbart and the team at SRI so important?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates has-author wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/engelbart-and-his-team-and-the-impact-of-their-work\/\">Engelbart and his team, and the impact of their work.<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Janette Olmiala<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-03-12T05:05:06+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">March 12, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In the 1960s, most computers were not equipped with user-friendly interfaces, and his vision introduced key interactive elements that laid the foundation for the future of interactive computing. Engelbart&#8217;s 1968 NLS demo included a graphical user interface (GUI) that incorporated windows, a mouse, hypertext linking, real-time collaborative editing, and video conferencing. It showcased the potential\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/engelbart-and-his-team-and-the-impact-of-their-work\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Engelbart and his team, and the impact of their work.<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/the-importance-of-the-first-computer-demonstration\/\">The importance of the first computer demonstration<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Dave Zheng<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-02-28T07:51:26+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">February 28, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">This was a historic moment, it marked the first public demonstration of the mouse, showcasing how to interact with a computer using a mouse. At that time, computers were primarily operated through keyboard input commands, and the system could use video conferencing, allowing meeting participants to conference from different locations. This demonstration was a significant\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/the-importance-of-the-first-computer-demonstration\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: The importance of the first computer demonstration<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/mother-of-all-demos\/\">Mother of all Demos<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by John Liu<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-02-28T07:03:55+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">February 28, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The demo by Douglas Engelbart and the SRI team was a game-changer because it introduced the concept of the computer mouse, and looking at it from today&#8217;s perspective, it feels like a revolutionary moment. Imagining a time when a simple device like the mouse wasn&#8217;t common is mind-boggling. The mouse, which we now take for\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/mother-of-all-demos\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Mother of all Demos<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/from-mouse-to-meeting-how-engelbarts-demo-changed-our-workday\/\">\u00a0From Mouse to Meeting: How Engelbart&#8217;s Demo Changed Our Workday<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Hannah He<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-02-27T07:02:22+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">February 27, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The demo by Douglas Engelbart and the team at SRI invented a series of machines that weren\u2019t even on the market before. The demo included: It set a grounding stone for what is possible for computing in the future.&nbsp; Also, this demo was publicly shown; people can access the demo video. Computing used to be\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/from-mouse-to-meeting-how-engelbarts-demo-changed-our-workday\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: \u00a0From Mouse to Meeting: How Engelbart&#8217;s Demo Changed Our Workday<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/mother-of-all-demos-trans-generational-innovations\/\">Mother of All Demos: Trans Generational Innovations<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Lynn Lin<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-02-20T00:50:15+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">February 20, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The demo was a historic and landmark demonstration of an unprecedented technological innovation that laid the foundation for the field of computing and showed how the field could evolve in the future. What they demonstrated was revolutionary for its time, which is why it was called &#8220;The Mother of All Demos&#8221;. Engelbart&#8217;s demonstration not only\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/mother-of-all-demos-trans-generational-innovations\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Mother of All Demos: Trans Generational Innovations<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why was the demo by Douglas Engelbart and the team at SRI so important?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-310","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}