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Inventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google
Talks at Google · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2014–2018).
SignalTube analysis
Among 105 other talk videos tagged Tech pioneers & interviews, the mean is 2.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 3.0 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2018; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 56 minutes 23 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2007-08-28.
- Channel / speaker
- Talks at Google
- Verified runtime
- 56m 23s
- YouTube upload date
- 2007-08-28
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2018
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Tech pioneers & interviews. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at GoogleCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 25% | — | 56m 23s | 2007-08-28 |
| Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005talk · JoshuaG | 13 | 11 | 68% | No recorded overlap | 14m 34s | 2006-03-06 |
| Growing a Language, by Guy Steeletalk · Bill Pugh | 11 | 10 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 53m 31s | 2012-07-15 |
| A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Googletalk · Talks at Google | 11 | 10 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 61m 40s | 2018-08-01 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Freeing the Web from the Browser”. Its short rationale: Engelbart politely calls Wikipedia a good start for his hypertext vision.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Doug Engelbart's advice to a young software developer [video]”. Its short rationale: 56-minute Google visit with Doug Engelbart presenting inspirational ideas, ending in perplexed Q&A.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “This is a motherfucking website. And it’s fucking not completely perfect”. Its short rationale: Engelbart on complex-topic discussion systems and powerful, learnable interfaces.