In 1968, Doug Engelbart at SRI demoed NLS, a computer system the research group had been working on for six years. Engelbart shows off a mouse, hyperlinking, network collaboration, file cut/copy/paste – pretty much everything that we think of as the fundamentals of computer interfacing a full fifteen years before they became commercial. Check out the video of the 1968 demonstration.
[via Boing Boing]