#1234: Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013) explain

San Francisco, December 9th, 1968:

[A Cueball-like figure talking into a headset. The title of this comic indicates that he is Douglas Engelbart.]

Douglas: …We generated video signals with a cathode ray tube… We have a pointing device we call a “mouse”… I can “copy” text… … and we have powerful joint file editing… underneath the file here we can exchange “direct messages”…

[Douglas continues to narrate. Some music is playing.]

Douglas: …Users can share files… … files which can encode audio samples, using our “masking codecs”… The file you’re hearing now is one of my own compositions…

Music: I heard there was a secret chord

[Douglas continues to narrate.]

Douglas: …And you can superimpose text on the picture of the cat, like so… This cat is saying “YOLO”, which stands for “You Only Live Once”…

Douglas: …Just a little acronym we thought up…