MOUSE TIMELINE

Isabel Cando

HIstory of mouse

1981 First Commercial Mouse

2004 First Laser Mouse

1952 First Trackball

1968 First Trackball Mouse

1963 First Mouse

1980 First Optical Mouse

A trackball mouse is a pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes—like an upside-down ball mouse with an exposed protruding ball.

Attached to a hugely expensive, wholly futuristic personal computer that utterly failed to sell.

Mice with mechanical moving parts were found to be somewhat unreliable, and by the late 1970s, Xerox had come up with an improvement to the now common trackball with a mouse.

As part of an experiment to find a better way to point and click on a display screen. It had a carved wood casing and just one button.

Until then, optical mice relied on LEDs for surface illumination and tracking.

A trackball mouse is a pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes—like an upside-down ball mouse with an exposed protruding ball.