> From: Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Considering that personal computers have been around since 1975 or so, they
> also have shown a lot of ignorance it they think those questions apply to
> anyone over 50. I'm 54 and I've been playing around with computers since
> high school.
To be fair, you and I are probably outliers.
When I was building computers in my garage, friends and relatives were saying,
“What would you ever want THAT for?” And quite frankly, I had trouble telling
them! (Until I read “Dream Machines,” see below.)
So I think it’s probably more true than false that people “of a certain age”
were not on the computer bandwagon since its inception.
> Or Doug Engelbart who sketched out the whole concept of hyperlinks and
> built the first mouse muchh earlier.
I thought it was Ted Nelson (in “Dream Machines/Computer Lib”) who came up with
hypertext in 1974? (My copy is getting yellow. Should I store it in nitrogen?
:-)
I met Doug Englebart at a conference, along with Adele Goldberg and many others
of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre luminaries. Most people have no idea how
much we owe to Xerox PARC — the mouse, ethernet, windowing interfaces, menus,
scroll bars, object-oriented programming — all came out of Xerox PARC.
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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