DOUGLAS Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, also gave it its first name.
But "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System" was not very catchy, so the first users of the computer mouse called them first "turtles" and later "rodents". This then became the cuter-sounding "mouse".
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'Mouse' inventor
DOUGLAS Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, also gave it its first name.
But "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System" was not very catchy, so the first users of the computer mouse called them first "turtles" and later "rodents". This then became the cuter-sounding "mouse".
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