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The computer mouse was a pointing device invented in the 1960s by Douglas Engelbart as a means of avoiding the use of the finger to smear dirt and oil on glass particularly at ATMs and PoS stations.

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[–] ghostdancer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Or putting it on the screen where she wanted the pointer to be.