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Re: 20 years of the optical mouse

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> From the ?good riddance, dirt sucking roller ball? department:
> Title: 20 Years Ago, Microsoft Changed How We Mouse Forever'
> Author: help@slashdot.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 04:34:00 -0400
> Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dc0x6Lj_XB8/20-years-ago-microsoft-changed-how-we-mouse-forever
> 
> I can count on my fingers the number of times a
> technology has thoroughly improved my life -- more often than not they tend to
> complicate things as well. (I'm looking at you, iPhone.) But 20 years later,
> the IntelliMouse Explorer is an upgrade that changed everything without any
> downside.

Meh, I never cared much either way. I think the main difference is
that it's much easier to design a bad ball mouse, than a bad optical
mouse. The author obviously found a very bad one if they had to clean
the ball every 15min (or maybe they were using it on a surface that
didn't grip). The one I'm using now hasn't had its ball cleaned since
it replaced the previous one that had an electronic malfunction about
a year ago (rather frustrating because I'd gone to the trouble of
replacing the microswitch under the left button a few weeks before).

I do applaud the invention of the mouse wheel though, not life
changing, but it's nice to have.

Here you go (though I'm tempted not to post the link because they
appear to be blocking Dillo):
https://blog.codinghorror.com/meet-the-inventor-of-the-mouse-wheel/

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20 years of the optical mouse RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-29 18:23 -0400
  Re: 20 years of the optical mouse not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-30 23:08 +0000
    Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-05-01 03:15 -0300
      Re: 20 years of the optical mouse RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-02 01:22 +0000
        Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-02 15:53 +0000
  Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2019-05-01 07:25 +0000
    Re: 20 years of the optical mouse RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-02 01:26 +0000
  Re: 20 years of the optical mouse richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2019-05-01 12:17 +0000
    Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-05-01 21:05 +0000
      Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-01 21:17 +0000

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