The "Mother of All Demos": December 9, 1968

On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute staged a 90-minute public multimedia demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. It was the world debut of personal and interactive computing: for the first time, the public saw a computer mouse, which controlled a networked computer system to demonstrate hypertext linking, real-time text editing, multiple windows with flexible view control, cathode display tubes, and shared-screen teleconferencing. The 1968 demo presaged many of the technologies we use today, from personal computing to social networking.

Click the images below to watch excerpts (in QuickTime) of what has been dubbed the "mother of all demos". The full 90-minute version is also available for viewing at Stanford University's MouseSite.

Introduction (38 sec; 1.6MB streaming video)	The Basics (6 min 24 sec, 15.4MB streaming video)
The Bootstrapping Approach (1 min 30 sec; 3.7MB streaming video)	The Devices (1 min 41 sec; 4.2MB streaming video)
The Hardware 1 min 57 sec; 5MB streaming video)	Software Development (3 min 43 sec; 9.4MB streaming video)
Applications (1 min 29 sec; 3.5MB streaming video)	Real-Time Collaboration (2 min 58 sec; 7.3MB streaming video)
Other Projects (2 min 3 sec; 5MB streaming video)	The Team (Thank-Yous) (2 min 2 sec; 5MB streaming video)