The Mother of All Demos (Encore)
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily. |
| 0:04.0 | Almost every single person listening to this podcast right now is doing so on some sort of personal computing device. |
| 0:14.0 | Many of the things that we consider part of a modern personal computer, |
| 0:17.0 | Windows, Hyperlink, a mouse, a text editor, |
| 0:20.0 | were all released upon the world in a single 90 minute demonstration in 1968. |
| 0:25.0 | The ideas were so advanced it would take over two decades before most of them found themselves |
| 0:30.0 | in everyone's home. |
| 0:31.0 | Learn more about the Mother of All Demos |
| 0:33.2 | and the birth of personal computing |
| 0:35.0 | on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Despite what you mind think, the personal computer didn't start with Steve Jobs and Apple or Bill Gates and Microsoft. |
| 0:59.0 | To be sure they had an important role to play, but all of the major innovations we associate with personal computer |
| 1:04.3 | software were actually developed before Apple or Microsoft even existed. |
| 1:09.2 | In particular, most of these ideas were developed by one man in the researchers in his laboratory, |
| 1:14.4 | Douglas Engelbart, and if you don't recognize his name, you probably should. |
| 1:19.5 | Douglas Engelbart grew up on a farm outside of Portland, Oregon during the Great Depression. |
| 1:24.0 | He enrolled at Oregon State University for Electrical Engineering, and like almost everyone else in his generation, he joined the military in World War II. |
| 1:31.0 | He enlisted in the Navy and became a radar technician. |
| 1:34.1 | After the war he returned to college and completed his degree in 1948. He then |
| 1:39.3 | went to work at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California |
| 1:42.3 | for the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, or NACA. |
| 1:46.0 | The NACA was the predecessor of NASA. |
| 1:50.0 | After serving in the war, he wanted to direct his energies towards peaceful purposes and he saw the potential in the electronic computer. |
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