The Mother of All Demos

50th Anniversary of The Mother of All Demos (amasad.me) I was asked to give a toast in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of The Mother of All Demos so I spent some time reflecting on Engelbart’s work.

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In the early 20th century, Madison Park became a popular summer destination for Seattleites due to its access via cable car and ferries to the Eastside.

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Wikipedia

The Mother of All Demos (Wikipedia) “The Mother of All Demos” is a name retroactively applied to a landmark computer demonstration, of developments by the Augmentation Research Center, given at the Association for Computing Machinery / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE)—Computer Society’s Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, by Douglas Engelbart, on December 9, 1968.