Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of a device we all consider a central part of our computing experience, the mouse.
This BBC article is an excellent tribute to this small creature.
It is amazing how such a seemingly casual idea was the herald of a revolution in the way we use computers.
Update
This article also shows some light on this guy who was so forward thinking.
The video link near the beginning is over an hour but is very interesting in what it indicates.
You have to think that at this time computers were rooms full of equipment and that input was typically cards, paper tape and if you were very lucky a teleprinter, and the output was paper tape, paper and on occasion a screen. The idea of the average user interacting via a console was rare and the interactive interface which is second nature to us these days was thought of as a nonsense at the time.
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