50th Anniversary of the "Mother of all Demos"

[Joe Becker via Unicode]

... "given at the Association for Computing Machinery / Institute of 
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE)—Computer Society's Fall 
Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, which was presented by 
Douglas Engelbart [with Bill English at the Stanford Research Institute 
end in Menlo Park] on December 9, 1968."

See e.g.:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mousesite/dce1968conferenceannouncement.jpg

This event presented the framework for modern computing, including 
Unicode and much else.

Joe