Computer mouse co-inventor William English dies at 91:
One of the pioneers of the modern computer interface has passed away: the New York Times reports that William "Bill" English died on July 26th from respiratory failure at the age of 91. Alongside Douglas Englebart at the Stanford Research Institute, English helped develop the first computer mouse and put together a 1968 "Mother of All Demos" that outlined many concepts that would come to PCs over the decades, such as graphical user interfaces, online text editing, video calls and hypertext links.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 04 2020, @07:48AM (3 children)
I want to note the text. All caps, no lower case. Don't know what that font is, but it definitely brings back memories from my Navy days. A lot of equipment simply had no provision for upper and lower case, so everything was upper case.
If I could reproduce that font, I'd probably drive a lot of people bugshit with it. ;^)
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday August 04 2020, @08:00AM
Give us a theme/skin for SN? :D
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @03:22PM (1 child)
UPPER CASE NO PUNCTUATION STOP WRITE LIKE A BOSS STOP
(Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Tuesday August 04 2020, @06:18PM
THAT WAS BEFORE LOWERCASE HAD BEEN INVENTED.
now people rite in lowercase with mispelleed wurds no punctuation and no coherent thought process about whether the alphabet has mixed case letters and what purpose they might serve but bosses can be expecially bad at this but not just bosses other coworkers can write in all lowercase run on sentences that mirrors the torrent of illogic that comes out of their mouths when they're not typing with two fingers
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.