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		hga on July 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mou... Hmmm, I can't think of anything better in a short headline. It does at least give the layman the tiniest idea.... E.g. more accurate but not headline quality: "Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of Modern Computer Interface Except For Graphics...." Can't say "Windows" since that has too close an association with the Microsoft brand, and most think they're inherently graphical. For Einstein they could have said "Explainer of the Universe...."

saraid216 on July 3, 2013 [–]

I explained him to a friend of mine as "basically the father of HCI". It's not precisely true, but it captures the gist and import better than "he invented the computer mouse".

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