"Back in 1964, Doug Engelbart invented the first ever computer mouse! Back then, it was made out of wood."
Today’s mice can be moved in any direction but the first mouse was far from as smooth. Instead, the mouse had two perpendicular wheels, they looked a bit like two pizza slicers, which allowed the user to move the mouse from side to side or forwards and backs. Therefore, the mouse had to move in a sick-sack pattern. Initially, the mouse was therefore called “X-Y position indicator for display systemâ€. As you probably understand, this name was not super sexy for marketing purposes and the developers had to come up with a new name.
The reason the inventors later chose to call it mouse was because the cord that stuck out reminded the tail of a mouse. At first, the cord set in the direction of the arm but this changed quickly as they noticed that it was in the way of the wrist.
