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Marcin Wichary

Charles Babbage’s mouse pointer

Join Marcin on a tour of those early user interfaces one never hears about, from Charles Babbage’s 19th-century Difference Engine, to an ancient PC with an attached mouse and no idea what to do with it. What made them work, what made them fail, what can we learn from them, and who were the – sometimes invisible – people behind them?