MUX Technology History-Personal mouse and desktop

With the PC into the tens of thousands of households, as one of the computer's main equipment of the mouse and desktop is also quickly popular in ordinary people, but you know how the mouse came out of it? Imagine a huge plastic box with a shiny glass screen, which almost occupies half of your desk. However, you can find a desktop on the surface of this spherical screen! Is this something that's not surprising? Who the hell came up with this idea? What the hell are they thinking? Why did they finally choose the desktop instead of the floor, the playground, the lawn or the river? Why do you have to open a window for this desktop? You may be more receptive to windows that are open on walls and not embedded on your desktop. Why is there a litter box on the desktop? Maybe it would be more normal to put the trash bins on the floor.

Pull far, the author from the interactive design of the Father Bill Mogrich "desinging Interactions" found the answer.

1. Why do we need a mouse?

How did we choose tools when we were learning to write? We choose to spend many years learning to use pencils, pens and even brushes. Sharpen your pencil so that you can use it to create the most accurate images or to write the smallest and finest letters. But it doesn't seem so easy to do this task with the mouse.

Doug Engelbart [1] tells us the story of his invention of the mouse:

When he was a student, on one occasion, he needed to measure the area formed by the curve of many complex shapes. So he used a measuring tool with wheels that would scroll in the same direction, 90 degrees around the axis, and finally slide to the side. At a boring meeting, Doug Engelbart wrote in his notebook: "You can have a good angle for two wheels so that they can move along the trajectory of the plane." Years later, when he was thinking about how he could pick a target on a computer screen, he suddenly remembered the notes and invented the world's first mouse with Bill Gree. However, we chose the mouse not just because Doug Engelbart invented it, but more importantly, it was the best click Tool for the computer screen. It goes beyond the photoelectric pen, cursor keys, joystick, trackball, and other a series of tools that were used by users in earlier tests. The mouse made the final victory, for the simple reason that it was best used.

Figure 1 The first mouse 1963-1964

As we prepared for the experiment, I suddenly remembered what I had recorded in my notebook a few years ago, and made a general description of Bill Gree. At the time, Bill Gree was an engineer in the lab, with the help of a few plotters and mechanics to put one of these programs to the test. Coincidentally, the program we used for the experiment passed all the tests. Finally, it becomes the user interface's indicator tool.

2. "Mouse" standard

Someone, I don't remember who it is, name this device a mouse. You can draw on the paper to know why the name: it is the size of the mouse, there is a choice for the button, the body behind the long wire drag. "It looks like a mouse with an ear!" "Someone shouted," he said. Since then, all of us have started to call it the mouse.

Fig. 2 Do I look like a mouse?