1st Mouse 【2026 Release】

Xerox PARC licensed Engelbart’s design in 1972. Xerox engineers, led by Bill English (who had moved to PARC), replaced the two wheels with a single ball (the trackball mechanism ), solving the dirt problem. This “ball mouse” became the basis for the Xerox Alto (1973), the first personal computer with a GUI.

The first computer mouse was the brainchild of , a computer scientist at SRI International . Engelbart didn't just want to build a tool; he wanted to "augment human intellect." In an era where computers were massive machines operated via punch cards and complex text commands, Engelbart envisioned a world where people could interact with data visually and intuitively. Design: Wood, Wheels, and Wires 1st mouse

More profoundly, Engelbart’s mouse established —the idea that digital objects respond to physical gestures. Every modern GUI, from Windows to macOS to Android, inherits this principle. Xerox PARC licensed Engelbart’s design in 1972

: The device was nicknamed the "mouse" because the connecting cord came out of the back of the device, resembling a tail. The "Mother of All Demos" The first computer mouse was the brainchild of