R.I.P. Doug Engelbart, Inventor of the ubiquitous Computer Mouse

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  Harshad Italiya

  R.I.P Doug Engelbart.
  
  How the computer mouse got its name is interesting.
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  zaveri

  But the mouse died a long time before Engelbart, didn't it ?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  zaveri

  But the mouse died a long time before Engelbart, didn't it ?

  I doubt the mouse is dying anytime soon. As long as desktops are there, mouse will continue. I think the mouse will be replaced by the trackpads though.
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  Ramani Aswath

  Am using one right now. Always do. People, who have had strokes or have mild Parkinsonianism or other other such disability still need ahardware like mouse to navigate.
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  zaveri

  Kaustubh Katdare

  I doubt the mouse is dying anytime soon. As long as desktops are there, mouse will continue. I think the mouse will be replaced by the trackpads though.

  
  what i meant to say was, that the ball- mouse has long been replaced by the optical mouse.