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__The First Mouse__

Website 1 http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/engelbart.htm **He carved the wood out of metal. ** **He was the predecessor to the Internet and google chrome ** **He also helped the invention of the Internet  and he helped apple create safari ** [] This video is a interview with Douglas Engelbart the mouse creator.
 * The man who made the first mouse was Douglas Engelbart. **
 * He was born in 1925. **
 * He was an electrical engineering student at Oregon Sate University . **
 * He also worked for NASA and the U.S. army **
 * He was in the navy and the Air Force **
 * He worked as a radar technician and a marine **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A radar technician makes sure that air and sea space is safe from enemies. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NASA is the National Aeronautical Space Administration. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He made the first mouse out of wood. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He used tow wheels mounted on he bottom instead of the ball used in the new version. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was not until 1984 that the Apple Macintosh popularized the mouse. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Douglas Engelbart at 75 years old never stopped coming up with ideas and one idea that he was determined was the human intellect in a computer. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Douglas Engelbart set the stage of computer revolution called personal computer. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During 1968 Fall joint computer conference held in San Francisco <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">also another conference was held in Brazil. **