The Mother of All Demos

On Dec. 9, 1968, Doug Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) performed the Mother of All Demos the world debut of personal and interactive computing. It was the realization of a vision hed developed as a graduate student in electrical engineering: that wed one day be able to fly through information spaces, and that the computer would become an extension of human communication capabilities and an augmentation of intellect.