The computer mouse has a long and interesting history that is often overshadowed by the invention of the personal computer. In fact, the mouse was invented long before the personal computer.

The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963. Engelbart was working at the Stanford Research Institute at the time and was looking for a way to improve the way people interacted with computers. His invention was originally called the “X-Y Position Indicator for Display Systems”.

The mouse was first used with the Xerox Alto computer, which was the first computer to use a graphical user interface. However, the …