Talk:DistOS 2014W Lecture 5

“Mother of all demos” is nickname for Engelbart who could make the computers help humans become smarter. His idea included seeing computing devices as a means to communicate and retrieve information, rather than just crunch numbers. This idea is represented in NLS”On-Line system”.

NLS was a revolutionary computer collaboration system from the 1960s. Designed by Douglas Engelbart and implemented by researchers at the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). The NLS system was the first to employ the practical use of hypertext links, the mouse, raster-scan video monitors, information organized by relevance, screen windowing, presentation programs, and other modern computing concepts.