The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

Posted by syndicatedjelly 10/23/2024

The Incredible Machine (1968) [video](www.youtube.com)

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lysace 10/23/2024|

"The Mother of All Demos" by Douglas Engelbart and his team at SRI happened the same year. It was done live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nm47PFALc8

It included:

- A pointing device (the first mouse)

- A GUI

- Hypertext

- Word processing

- Collaborative real-time editing of a document

- Video conferencing

- File sharing

lysace 10/23/2024||

The first mouse pointer is a bitmap of an arrow pointing straight upwards.

noufalibrahim 10/23/2024||

I started work and abandoned a small clone of this wonderful game a long time ago

https://github.com/nibrahim/Devious-machinations

mckirk 10/23/2024||

Note that this is about a documentary about the human body from 1975 (according to Wikipedia), not the video game that was released in 1993.

(Though for me the game definitely also was the first association.)

wyldfire 10/23/2024||

This is not a documentary about the human body. It's about computers, Bell Labs.

mckirk 10/23/2024||

Well, I stand corrected, thanks. Apparently there are too many things called 'The Incredible Machine'.

I just clicked on the video for a second and the first image it showed still seemed to fit the 'human body' topic, because at a glance it looked like some kind of ultrasonic scanner.

dangsux 10/23/2024||

[dead]

mckirk 10/23/2024||

I did click the link, as I said.

SeeManDo 10/23/2024|

They made it say NOICE

moffkalast 10/23/2024|

They didn't want their computer to freeze, ergo no ice.