According to the reading, Douglas Engelbart and his team at Stanford Research Institute had a huge role in developing Graphical User Interfaces and demonstrating many new technological concepts such as mouse, windows, display, hyperlinking, and real-time editing.
Engelbart came up with the very first mouse that enables easy control over the on-screen cursor. They also came up with the windows concept, which allowed users to have multiple windows for various tasks. Engelbart created the function of hyperlink, which instantly takes you to different window or page as you click on it in a document. Their demo showed the possibility of multi-users real-time editing on a document that increased the efficiency of many collaborative tasks like office work.
I think that these inventions are really important to acknowledge since these are the ones made the computer “convenient” from all the coding base computing. And I would call it the beginning of “interactive computation”.
