Submission + - The Origin of the Blinking Cursor (inverse.com) 1
jimminy_cricket writes: These were some of the first growing pains of early word processing. Devoid of the seamless trackpad and mouse control we take for granted today, wordsmiths of the era were instead forced to hack through a digital jungle of their own creation. Unbeknownst to them, engineers were already developing a seemingly innocuous feature that would quietly change computing forever: the blinking cursor.
Patented in 1967 by Charles Kiesling, the blinking cursor "is simply a way to catch the coders' attention and stand apart from a sea of text." According to Kiesling's son, his father said, "there was nothing on the screen to let you know where the cursor was in the first place. So he wrote up the code for it so he would know where he was ready to type on the Cathode Ray Tube."
Patented in 1967 by Charles Kiesling, the blinking cursor "is simply a way to catch the coders' attention and stand apart from a sea of text." According to Kiesling's son, his father said, "there was nothing on the screen to let you know where the cursor was in the first place. So he wrote up the code for it so he would know where he was ready to type on the Cathode Ray Tube."
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