{"id":6758,"date":"2013-11-17T23:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T23:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/computer-mouse-patented\/"},"modified":"2013-11-17T23:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T23:19:49","slug":"computer-mouse-patented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/computer-mouse-patented\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Mouse Patented"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-3882\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F11%2Fcomputer_mouse_patent.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3882]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3883\" alt=\"computer_mouse_patent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/237b1__computer_mouse_patent-170x300.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>November 17, 1970<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDouglas_Engelbart\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Engelbart<\/a> receives\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Finventors.about.com%2Flibrary%2Finventors%2Fbl_computer_mouse_patent.htm\" target=\"_blank\">US patent 3,541,541<\/a> for his\u00a0\u201dX-Y Position Indicator For A Display System\u201d, more commonly known as the computer mouse. Engelbart called his device a \u201cmouse\u201d because the cord looked like a tail. The mouse was first prototyped in 1964, wasn\u2019t demoed until 1968, and was not included with a commercial computer until <a title=\"Apple Lisa Introduced\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F01%2F19%2Fapple-lisa-introduced%2F\">Apple\u2019s Lisa in 1983<\/a>. The mouse did not become ubiquitous until after 1984, when Apple\u2019s Macintosh popularized the device.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3886\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft c10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F11%2F500004646-03-01.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[3882]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3886\" alt=\"Prototype of the first mouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/237b1__500004646-03-01-300x225.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The prototype of the first mouse<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F11%2F16%2Fsteve-jobs-writes-a-letter%2F\" rel=\"prev\">Steve Jobs Writes a Letter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/237b1__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/17\/computer-mouse-patented\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 17, 1970 Douglas Engelbart receives\u00a0US patent 3,541,541 for his\u00a0\u201dX-Y Position Indicator For A Display System\u201d, more commonly known as the computer mouse. Engelbart called his device a \u201cmouse\u201d because the cord looked like a tail. The mouse was first prototyped in 1964, wasn\u2019t demoed until 1968, and was not included with a commercial computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[880,881,2210],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-computer","tag-mouse","tag-patented"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}