{"id":1690,"date":"2013-07-05T02:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T02:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/07\/05\/the-mother-of-all-demos-presented-by-douglas\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T22:38:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T22:38:59","slug":"the-mother-of-all-demos-presented-by-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/05\/the-mother-of-all-demos-presented-by-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart&rsquo;s December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>(by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY\">MarcelVEVO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) &ldquo;The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart&rsquo;s December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-rg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":187,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2014\/09\/17\/despite-repression-despite-concessions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1690,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Despite repression, despite concessions&#8221; &#8211; Immanuel Wallerstein on what the Arab Spring can learn from 1968","author":"monochromist","date":"September 17, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"\"Despite repression, despite concessions\" - Immanuel Wallerstein on what the Arab Spring can learn from 1968","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":481,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/09\/12\/for-culture-is-a-possible-pattern-of-meanings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1690,"position":1},"title":"For culture is a possible\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"September 12, 2013","format":"quote","excerpt":"For culture is a possible pattern of meanings inherited from the immediate past, a canopy for the interpretive needs of the present. 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