larry tesler received the chi "life time practice award" 2011. In his talk he goes from the 1960s upwards to tell his personal story of how things developed in the area of usability, interfaces, ... in labs as parc, nls, apple, ...

be aware: participatory and collaborative design existed already in the 1960s: simply take some art students and a stadium ...

in there his story about how "cut&paste" (publishing houses) became "copy & paste"; how functionality and use of the mouse changed over time. in his collaboration with a secretary he found out the following:

- character key type characters, not commands. - the intuitive use of a mouse is to point at things, not to accept and delete commands | tesler: designing for 6x10⁹, CHI2011

when kurt gödel becomes kurt gerdel | donald davies, early computing at npl, and turing.

licklider becomes rick rider, google translation. the jp people science museum got it right, though.  – According to the image ...

1976: European AUTOVON (AUTOmatic VOice Network) of the US Defense Communication System (DCS)

a telephon network, "designed for stress conditions".