Over the course of the next 90 minutes, Douglas and the NLS team put on what is now known in Silicon Valley as The Mother of All Demos. The audience watched in disbelief as he “collaborated with distant colleagues to create a document; different people made edits, added graphics, changed the layout, built a map, and embedded audio and visual elements in real-time. They even were able to create hypertext links together. In short, Douglas showed, in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.”
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