Thoughts on ARC

Reading about ARC, PARC, and Englebart's 1968's demonstrations remind me very much of Steve Jobs' demonstrations today. This is not surprising, considering that it was ARC and the early computer demonstrations that Engelbart pioneered that type of promotion that is so common today. Many of the tools that Engelbart demonstrated (the mouse, the GUI, WYSIWYG, etc.) are things that we now take for granted. It is pretty impressive to think just how advanced he and his peers were, in terms of creating their own network to transmit data from two different locations, just for one demonstration.