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  1. muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 19:10:34 UTC muesli muesli

    Legend has it that Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in 1968.

    But did you know that German television manufacturer Telefunken released a "rolling-ball" device just a few months earlier?

    From a technical perspective it actually closely resembles the kind of mouse that we ended up using until the late 90s.

    The German patent office declined a patent due to a "lack of inventive step".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Rollkugel

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