News Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91

[Notebook]

The co-creator of the computer mouse, William English, has died aged 91.

The engineer and inventor was born in 1929 in Kentucky and studied electrical engineering at university before joining the US Navy.

He built the first mouse in 1963, using an idea put forward by his colleague Doug Engelbart while the pair were working on early computing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53638033

 

[jedidia]

And then Xerox said "Meh, we're a computing business, not a rodent zoo", sat on the patent and showed the whole thing to Apple. The rest, as they say, is history...

"In the first report, we had to call it something. 'A brown box with buttons' didn't work," Mr English said.

I see Mr. English had more sense than Leonard da Quirm... :thumbup: