Deaths: Mousey, Mousey

DOUG ENGELBART, 88 Inventor of the computer mouse died July 2, 2013. Always considered his work "augmentory human intellect." Developed the mouse in the 1960s and patented it in the 1970s. Originally the mouse was a wooden shell with two metal wheels but it was not available commercially until 1984 in Apple's Macintosh. Here's hoping that they have the original somewhere. It became public domain in 1987 so he didn't get much in the way of royalties. Sadly, the mouse is on its way out a speople now swipe fingers on smart phones and tablets, but his computer mouse was a huge step into popularizing computers. I still like to sit here at the old 'pute and run that mouse. I know that I would have even been later joining the 'puter age had I not had that handy lil' mouse.