Pre-web
Internet history before the web was born.
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Cyberculture 1960s-1990s and the Legacy of Alice Mary Hilton
Alice Mary Hilton coins the word 'cyberculture' in 1963, and by the mid-90s it’s in common use. Yet Hilton never gets her due, especially compared to her contemporary Marshall McLuhan.
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The Time I Met Bill English, Co-Creator of the Mouse
I interviewed Bill English in May 2014, six years before his death on July 26, 2020, at age 91. English was Doug Engelbart’s right-hand man in the Mother of All Demos in 1968 and helped develop the mouse.
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1969: Building the oN-Line System
On October 1, 1969, ten months after the historic Mother Of All Demos, Doug Engelbart from the Augmentation Research Center gives a second demonstration of the pioneering NLS.
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1968: The Mother of All Demos
It's December 9, 1968, and Douglas Engelbart is about to showcase the world’s first personal, networked, computer — as a live demo. It’s the computing equivalent of a high-wire trapeze act with no net.
