Happy 85th Birthday to Douglas Engelbart!
Steve Wozniak leaned over to Douglas Engelbart at The Tech Museum in San Jose on Saturday, to speak a personal tribute to the man who invented the computer mouse and who, back in the 1950s, began to conceptualize the possibility of a vast realm of information where people could zip around exploring almost any idea.
Today we call it the Internet.
"If all the leaders of the world — the presidents of all the countries, the CEOs of all the companies — were here in this room, you'd be my hero," Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer and helped create some of the first commercially successful personal computers in the 1970s, told Engelbart. "You'd be the one I would gravitate to."
The occasion was a crowded and jubilant 85th birthday party for Engelbart, the white-haired cyber-seer from Atherton whose ideas now shape the lives of billions of people each day.
