On this day, the computing world changed forever with the arrival on the scene of the world’s first commercial computer mouse. The mouse was connected to an incredibly expensive, futuristic personal computer, the Xerox Star, and while the computer was an economic failure, the mouse was destined to revolutionise the future of man’s interaction with computers. Although the original mouse was invented in the 1960s by Doug Engelbart and Bill English, the innovations of the Xerox Star mouse finally gave computing a spatial dimension it had never possessed before, providing an essential ease of use to personal computing. When Apple’s first Macintosh computer came on the market in 1984, the future of the mouse was assured.
