The computer mouse was invented in 1967 by Douglas Engelbart, a scientist at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. Engelbart had been working on a way to improve the way humans interacted with computers, and the mouse was his solution.

The mouse was first shown to the public in 1968, when Engelbart gave a demonstration of it at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. The mouse was later included in the first personal computer, the Altair 8800, which was released in 1975.

The mouse has come a long way since its invention in 1967. Today, …