Douglas Engelbart

 Douglas Engelbart was given the title "the Mother of All Demos" after a computer demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer conference in San Francisco, California. He featured a complete hardware and software system called the NLS system. The presentation was way ahead of its time and displayed the first graphical user interface influencing Microsoft and Apple in the 1990's. Instead of lines of code to perform functions the demo used a mouse device to click, resize windows, and highlight. The entire presentation went on flawlessly without any technical glitches which is incredible considering it was so early in the age of computers. The presentation went over a lot of modern fundamental elements of computing like file linking, revision control, video conferencing, word processing, etc. It seems like Engelbart had practically came from the future and blessed us with this technology. He gained enough funding from NASA and ARPA to make his system and create the greatest technological demo of all time, even to this day. I am interested in doing more research as to why he did not make a major push in the computer market over time, he seemed so ahead of the field.