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Englebart is most well-known for being an inventor of the computer mouse. The mouse made its debut at ... you can thank Abramson for his contributions in launching ALOHAnet, the first wireless local ...

the design for the first tablet PC was set out in 1968, long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was computer ...