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| + | [[File:Dce1968conferenceannouncement.jpg|thumb|right|alt="An event poster from 1968|The announcement for the 1968 conference, it is billed as "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect]] | ||
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| + | '''The Mother of All Demos''' is a colloquial name given to a presentation from 1968 for the NLX Machine by Douglass Engelbert in 1968. It was fundamentally a realization of the Memex machine by Dr. Vannever Bush in his famous essay ''As We May Think''. It introduces numerous concepts now standard to computing, including Hypertext, using a mouse, telecommunications, wireless networking, versioning, and several other things. | ||
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| + | It is widely considered one of the most significant events in the history of the development of the computer. | ||
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| + | ==External links== | ||
| + | *[http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html Memorial website] | ||
| + | *[https://archive.org/details/motherofalldemos_reel1 The Mother of All Demos Reel 1] | ||
| + | *[https://archive.org/details/motherofalldemos_reel2 The Mother of All Demos Reel 2] | ||
| + | *[https://archive.org/details/motherofalldemos_reel3 The Mother of All Demos Reel 3] | ||
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The Mother of All Demos is a colloquial name given to a presentation from 1968 for the NLX Machine by Douglass Engelbert in 1968. It was fundamentally a realization of the Memex machine by Dr. Vannever Bush in his famous essay As We May Think. It introduces numerous concepts now standard to computing, including Hypertext, using a mouse, telecommunications, wireless networking, versioning, and several other things.
It is widely considered one of the most significant events in the history of the development of the computer.
