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THE
aim
of this site is to provide a resource for expanding our current
understanding of the development of the pathbreaking ideas connected
with the mouse, hypertext, windowing, and networked collaborative
workspaces, the individuals who worked with Engelbart in bringing
them to light, the computer systems that came to embody them,
and the dissemination of these ideas and devices beyond the original
group at SRI to the world. The site contains a portion of the
archival materials in the Douglas C. Engelbart Papers in Stanford
University Library's Special Collections, drawn from the period
of Engelbart's work at SRI from 1959 through the first public
demonstration of the NLS (oNLine System) in 1968.
To date the history of these important developments has been
captured primarily in retrospectives, such as the important ACM
conference and subsequent volume on the personal workstation
organized by Adele Goldberg in 1988, in which Doug Engelbart
has reminisced about the motivations and development of his work.
Our goal in this site is to add to our online archive and to
multiply the points of view by tapping the community memory of
the participants in these events, encouraging them to expand
our understanding by contributing their own stories to the archive
and commenting upon and adding to the views of other participants
in these events. We understand "participants" to include
not only the original group of the Augment Research Center, which
eventually grew to include 47 members, but also others not directly
part of this group, but who were working on other related areas
of computer science and communications, and at other sites. Our
goal is to include this wider community in the construction of
the archive and in the writing of the history. Doug Engelbart
has called this style of collective work "bootstrapping."
We are engaged in bootstrapping the history of human-computer
interaction.
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