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The computer mouse was not created by one man but vision of one man and the creation of a group of fellow workers. The man directly responsible for the invention of the computer mouse is known as Douglas C. Engelbart but he has story has much more to tell.
After graduating from UC Berkley as an electrical engineer, Douglas joined the service as a radar technician. Perhaps this was the seed that grew into an obsession with creating an environment that was pleasing the human-computer interaction. Soon after Douglas surrounded himself with 17 fellow computer engineers, electrical engineers, and programmers, and started a revolution.
On December 9th 1968 they unvalued their work, Douglas gave a 90 minute presentation of the first computer that used a mouse to navigate a multi windowed operating system with icons and all networked to a mainframe 2 miles away. Soon after they worked on the ARPA net and developed the Internet and HTML as you see it today. His visions were so advanced that his windows platform along with his mouse was not in use until 10 years after they were created and the Internet was embraced 20 years after its creation and it is one of the most powerful tools you can have today. If you were to take away what he had envisioned the you would be left with a computer that would serve no real purpose but crunch numbers for the government.
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