#1234: Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013)

San Francisco, December 9th, 1968:

[[We see a figure talking into a headset. It’s a fair assumption that it’s 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 join 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”… …Just a little acronym we thought up…