Your computer companion `The Mouse` turns forty
December 8, 2008
The most touched computer device is the Mouse. The friendly mouse celebrated its 40th birthday. The first computer mouse invented some 40 years ago was a wooden box structure with a single red button on top and a wire hung from the back. This is the reason for linking it to a rodent.
With times we saw computers transformed from large white boxes to flat screens and lap tops and so also the mouse has undergone many changes. The 83-year-old American is a designer who worked on the mouse at California’s Stanford Research Institute. Sadly he is not a rich man because he never got any royalties as the patent expired before it became a must have necessity.
Only in 1981, Xerox included a mouse with their Star computer system and the trend was followed by Apple, which offered one mouse with their Macintosh system though a few years later. Microsoft made it a standard device for navigating Window system and now mouse is considered as integral part of a computer.
The present mouse replaced the rubber trackball by more accurate infra-red technology. Even cordless mouse are freely available in the market today .But the name `Mouse` stuck. The mouse may be sent into oblivion with the advent of Apple’s innovative touch screen technology on its iPhone Touch gadgets.
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