Why Is It Called a Computer ‘Mouse’?
From bugs to worms and pythons, the computing world is full of names borrowed from living creatures. Yet another example is the accessory known as a computer mouse. Modern versions of the device are sleek, wireless, and lack a strong affinity to cheese, but the earliest incarnations of the tech
give us a clue as to the naming. The first computer mice trace back to the early 1960s — we see written evidence of the term “mouse” in a 1965 report from the Stanford Research Institute discussing computer displays. Three years later, Douglas Engelbart, the inventor whose sketches inspired the...
