Happy Birthday Mouse!

Dear Mouse,

Happy 40th Birthday!!

Even though you're fourty, you've had lots and lots of plastic surgery and changes done to you. Did you know that you were born made out of wood!!

1968 it was... your daddy, Doug Engelbart, made a big wooden version of you and used you to show of his networked computers in a presentation. He didn't call you a mouse mind you, one of his friends thought you looked like a mouse, so the name stuck!

It wasn't until you were 16 though, remember that? Remember when your dad's friend, Steve Jobs, made that Apple II computer and started giving you away with it... wow you made such an impact! And, since then, you've been touched and prodded and pressed and clicked and moved by millions of people every day. Poor you!

And who could forget 1999? When that company with the funny name decided to make the very first "gaming mouse"... that was exciting wasn't it! You looked all funny with your new design, and you were shy and no one thought that you'd manage to be a gaming mouse. How wrong were they!

So, thank you very much mouse for letting us enjoy using (and playing with) our computers. Don't worry about the nay-sayers, or those gloomy people who think that we'll all be forgetting about you in 40 year's time, when things like touch screens and gesture controls take over your place. You'll always be my number one!

SoB.