Doug Englebart’s Mother of All Demos (1968) launched at least two central concepts for modern computing: long-distance on-line collaboration and interaction with computers via visual graphic displays. The demo movie is now available on-line via Google Video and the Invisible Revolution site.
Google Video. The demo starts after about 1 min and 30 sec. The first segment includes what could be called the “mother of all slideshows,” which summarizes the importance of the research project. It is quite grainy in this version and hard to read. If you do want to read it use the link below the player plugin, from invisible revolution. If you want to skip it, you can fast forward to about 1 min 30 sec by using the cursor.
Inivisible Revolution is a site entirely dedicated to Doug’s contribution to the computing (and Internet) revolution.