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On this day, May 2, 1983, Microsoft introduced its two-button mouse.
Two-button computer mouse introduced by Microsoft forty years ago today:
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For many years I worked as a typesetter (typographer) and a proofreader for various design agencies and publications. I was trained on an early cold-type machine called the Editwriter, and it's all old technology now. But in the early 80's it was the red hottest up-to-date technology and it's what I learned on.
I've owned several desktop and laptop computers since then, and every one of them has/had a mouse and keyboard) as primary interface tools. It's a brilliant, ubiquitous tool!
