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[[File:Dce1968conferenceannouncement.jpg|thumb|right|alt="An event poster from 1968|The announcement for the 1968 conference, it is billed as "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect"]]

'''The Mother of All Demos''' is a colloquial name given to a presentation from 1968 for the NLX Machine by Douglass Engelbert. It was fundamentally a realization of the Memex machine by Dr. Vannever Bush in his famous essay ''As We May Think''. It introduces numerous concepts now standard to computing, including [[Hypertext]], using a mouse (years before Xerox), telecommunications, wireless networking, versioning, and several other things.

[[File:On Line System Videoconferencing FJCC 1968.jpg|thumb|left|alt="A black and white still from the presentation"|Demonstrating early attempts at Videoconferencing and Collaborative-editing during the presentation]]

It is widely considered one of the most significant events in the history of the development of the computer.

==External links==
*[http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html Memorial website]
*[https://archive.org/details/motherofalldemos_reel1 The Mother of All Demos Reel 1]
*[https://archive.org/details/motherofalldemos_reel2 The Mother of All Demos Reel 2]
*[https://archive.org/details/motherofalldemos_reel3 The Mother of All Demos Reel 3]