Doug Engelbart , Computer mouse inventor is dead

Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email, word processing programs and the Internet, has died at the age of 88.

Doug Engelbart was born on 30 January 1925 in Portland, Oregon, to a radio repairman father and a housewife mother.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, where Doug  had been a fellow since 2005, said Wednesday that it was notified of the death in an email from her daughter, Christina.

Doug’s daughter says, my father’s health had deteriorated and he died in Tuesday night’s sleep.

Daug Engelbart invent mouse in 1960s , with wooden box,cylinder and two metal wheels, presented at San Fransisco.

In the 1950s  and 60s, when mainframes took up entire rooms and were fed data on punch cards, Daug already was envisioning a day when computers would empower people to share ideas and solve problems in ways that seemed unfathomable at the time