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Doug Engelbart has died
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Re: Doug Engelbart has died
#12Can we get independent verification of this? I've looked at all of my usual primary sources and I can't find third party confirmation.
There's an email from Christina (his daughter) on classiccmp cctalk, so I'd be inclined to believe it.
(edited to add that Christina is his daughter, and if you can find a cctalk archive, or subscribe and just missed it, its dated 6:31 and AEK forwarded it onto the list this morning.)
Re: Doug Engelbart has died
#13Obligatory link to 'The Mother of All Demos':
http://youtu.be/JfIgzSoTMOs
Re: Doug Engelbart has died
#14If you've never watched the retrospectively-named "Mother of All Demos", it's an extraordinary document of current-day technology that was somehow done in 1968. There are parts that just seem "wrong" — as seemingly-anachronistic as if Don Draper used a PowerPoint. Yet, there it is. http://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCnt... Edit: link had been to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY but a u…
Thank you for posting, this version is much higher quality than the other youtube links.
Re: Doug Engelbart has died
#15Can we get independent verification of this? I've looked at all of my usual primary sources and I can't find third party confirmation.
The Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart) has already been updated with this link:
http://gigaom.com/2013/07/03/doug-engelbart-american-invento...
Re: Doug Engelbart has died
#16Do people not read the links they upmod? This source doesn't state that he's died. This just seems to be completely unsubstantiated at this point, especially as there's no mention of this anywhere else.
When I posted this comment the link was to a completely unrelated page that made no mention of his death. As of right now the link has changed twice. For whatever reason HN had a snafu and didn't delete it when I hit the delete button. Now the comment is completely incorrect, undeletable, and uncorrectable!
Link submitter here (first time, too): My apologies, I saw the news via the Computer History Museum's twitter feed ( https://twitter.com/ComputerHistory/status/35248540097302118... ) , and they linked to that page. I googled around for a better link but couldn't find anything, but felt it was worth mentioning as a story to allow for discussion?
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#17I'm just going to imagine that he's running in the background with no terminal attached.
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#18If you've never watched the retrospectively-named "Mother of All Demos", it's an extraordinary document of current-day technology that was somehow done in 1968. There are parts that just seem "wrong" — as seemingly-anachronistic as if Don Draper used a PowerPoint. Yet, there it is. http://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCnt... Edit: link had been to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY but a u…
No offense, but that metaphor is still an euphemism.
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#19He predicted 'The Cloud' in 1976 and we're just catching up now, "Engelbart slipped into relative obscurity after 1976. Several of his researchers became alienated from him and left his organization for Xerox PARC, in part due to frustration, and in part due to differing views of the future of computing. Engelbart saw the future in collaborative, networked, timeshare (client-server) computers, which younger programmers rejected in favor of the personal computer. The conflict was both technical and social: the younger programmers came from an era where centralized power was highly suspect, and personal computing was just barely on the horizon." ( Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart )
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#20If you've never watched the retrospectively-named "Mother of All Demos", it's an extraordinary document of current-day technology that was somehow done in 1968. There are parts that just seem "wrong" — as seemingly-anachronistic as if Don Draper used a PowerPoint. Yet, there it is. http://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCnt... Edit: link had been to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY but a u…
Another one of his hidden gems is the video where he discussed how they created a virtual tele-conferencing room by moulding CRT screens in the shapes of the head of each participant and projected their face onto it.
It's the perfect example of a practical solution Doug invented decades ago that still hasn't been matched by today's technology.
P.S. I was never able to find the link after I saw it once, so if someone here knows where to find it; please let me know.