The first computer mouse was wooden. Designed by Douglas Engelbart in 1967, the gadget was essentially a wooden block with two wheels on it. Rudimentary to say the least, but the mouse marked a huge step forward in computer user interface. Check it.

Guerrino de Luca, the Italian CEO of Logitech, recently let us in on a little secret. The boss (of the company made famous by the first wireless mouse in 1991) has one of these wooden buggers at the Logitech headquarters in Newark, California. It may seem trivial, but this device is the prototype for a device that quite literally covers the entire planet. Computer engineers would go knock-kneed in its presence. That wooden mouse spawned a basic design that has been replicated millions, if not billions, of times.

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Fonte: San Francisco, Italy