Photographs and credits

The Mother of All Demos — 07 / 07

Sources

Every photograph on this site is an archival image used under its own licence.

The prototype mouse in a museum vitrine beside its printed label, cable coiled on the stone plinth.

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Collections

The 1968 and 1969 laboratory photographs, the NLS console and the later portrait come from SRI International, CC BY-SA 3.0, with one public-domain press photograph. The two studio plates of the 1964 prototype are Science Museum Group, CC BY 4.0.

  • SRI International — CC BY-SA 3.0, plus one public-domain photograph.
  • Science Museum Group — CC BY 4.0.
  • Computer History Museum visitors, including Michael Hicks — CC BY 2.0.
  • Gregory Lloyd, Brown University 1969 — CC BY 2.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Alex Handy, 2008 — CC BY-SA 2.0.
The wooden mouse in three-quarter view with its braided cable and connector laid out beside it.

Over-the-shoulder view of a 1969 hypertext console: light pen touching a line of text on a curved cathode-ray tube.

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One correction

The light-pen photographs are not from the 1968 demonstration. They show the Hypertext Editing System at Brown University in October 1969, and are included because they are the clearest surviving pictures of a console of that generation being used to select linked text.


Go to the primary sources

The Doug Engelbart Institute holds the film, the papers and the full 1962 report.

Read Augmenting Human Intellect