The tiny wonder..........

Have you ever thought how ironical it would be to possess a personal computer with all the essential peripherals right from an LCD screen to a webcam to a bluray rw drive, "except a mouse"??? Sounds wierd eh? Now, please dont think of all the modern stuff like lightpen, touch screen etc.. etc... My sole purpose of asking a question like that was just to shift your attention to that tiny device which you have been using daily for working on computers. Well, speaking about the first computers ( which may seem to be my habit these days, but... never mind) they dint have a mouse and everything had to be done by inputs through keyboards.
It was the idea of Douglas Engelbart, yes of course, the same person who gave a new definition to modern computers with his brilliant and valuable contributions computer video, teleconferencing, hypermedia, groupware, email and the internet and the more. He recieved a patent for the wooden shell with two metal wheels which was nicknamed 'mouse' because of the wire coming out from one end. It was described at first as an " x-y position indicator for a display system.
Douglas Engelbart is, presently the director of his company, Bootstrap Institute in Fremont, California, which promotes the concept of Collective IQ. The best part of it is that Bootstrap is housed rent free courtesy of the Logitech Corp., a famous manufacturer of computer mice.