The first computer mouse was a carved block of wood with two metal wheels.

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It brought us the first Macintosh computer, introducing to a mass market the GUI and the mouse and the ease of use and naturalness they made possible.

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First conceived by Dr Douglas Engelbart and aided by Bill English -- who would later design the first "ball mouse" -- at the Stanford Research Institute in 1965, the mouse was first used commercially by Xerox in their "Star Workstation" computer made in 1981.

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