{"id":1318,"date":"2026-12-09T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-12-09T05:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:06:15","slug":"first-demonstration-of-computer-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"First Demonstration of Computer Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"First Computer Mouse\" src=\"http:\/\/dougengelbart.org\/images\/pix\/t01.jpg\" alt=\"t01\" width=\"184\" height=\"129\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Computer Mouse<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse<\/strong> in 1967 and demonstrated it for the first time on December 9, 1968. \u00a0However, it was not really used until 1984. \u00a0He received no money for his invention. Children\u00a0can view Engelbart\u2019s timeline of inventions and see some other interesting ideas, including a knee operating system, at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougengelbart.org\/history\/pix.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Computer Mouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1967 and demonstrated it for the first time on December 9, 1968. \u00a0However, it was not really used until 1984. \u00a0He received no money for his invention. Children\u00a0can view Engelbart\u2019s timeline of inventions and see some other interesting ideas, including a knee operating system, at: Computer Mouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4450,47,48,4449],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4450","tag-computer-mouse","tag-december-9","tag-douglas-engelbart","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21545,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/21545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}