A Computer Mouse By Any Other Name

In My Humble Opinion
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What do you think that gadget we all use with our computers might have been called it it hadn’t been called it a “mouse”?

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Pointer, controller.

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/126692-9/the_25_greatest_pcs_of_all_time.html

You can see why a one word name like “mouse” came about.

4

puck has also been used.

5

The current version of the basic computer course at my local community college still claims that a wireless mouse can be called a hamster.

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It was called a “mouse” by Doug Englebart during “The Mother of All Demos” in 1968. See Clip 12:

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Palmster.

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Pointy-clicky-thingy.

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  • and widget lost yet another chance to become a clearly tangible item.

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“That other thing you have in your hand when you’re surfing the internet”. :wink:

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The goooey ? lol

Declan

12

Manually Operated User Selection Equipment.

13

“The Device”

14

Clicker? Paddle? Pointer? Remote?

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I’d probably go with clicker, although for some reason we called the TV remote in our house the “dink”, so a mouse might have been known as the “PC dink”.

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a rat.

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Remote. Or possibly slider.