The History of the Mouse de Computador

Mouse of computer was created by Douglas Engelbart, in 1968, result of a project that lasted five years.

Engelbart, born in 30 of January of 1925, in the Oregon, U.S.A., worked in the Institute of Research of Stanford, where it developed “ratinho of table”.

Its first version was done wooden, was moved on small wheels and had only one button.

The popularização of the equipment, so indispensable today, started sufficiently late, when in 1982 the Appel launched the system “to point and to clicar”, exactly year where it earned plus a keyboard key.