The Augmentation of Man's Intellect

Engelbart secured support from SRI to open a lab at the Institute, which he called the Augmentation Research Center. He started tinkering with controllers that would allow users to manipulate information directly on the screen instead of simply typing commands. The advent of computer monitors made it clear that text could be liberated from the fixed linear structure of the printed page. On screen you could move through information space in ways impossible in print.