He set up ARC in 1963 to follow through on these ideas, and, as Rheingold notes, wound up inventing not just the mouse but the first word processors, conferencing systems, hypertext systems, and mixed ...

The word “mouse” was much catchier, and that’s what the device was eventually called when it debuted as part of a personal computer station, first sold by the Xerox Corporation on this day ...

The very first computer mouse, something that we’d recognize ... It’s easy enough to draw a line between this mouse design and the one included with the Xerox Alto as the first consumer ...

Each button is a switch in the mouse that completes a circuit when it is pressed, sending a signal to the computer to perform a certain action. The first stage in the mouse’s evolution was the ...