[M T]

Not at Stanford, but my first experience with programming computers was Fall of 1966 using an interpreted(!!) language (on an IBM Selectric).  My first use of punch cards came about 3 years later (1969) and was the primary input medium for about 5+ years.  There was a short period around 1972 where I used a teletype machine a few times, but then we quickly moved to CRT (primarily 24x80) devices, and then to bit-mapped displays around 1981.  1972 included doing computer graphics (on a vector display).  (That's about the time that handheld electronic calculators became economical in the $100+ range.) My first use of the Arpanet was June 1974.  My grad school got on the Internet in 1977 -- I have email printouts discussing the strategy of getting it there and the specifics of where to place it on campus.  My oldest email that I've found on the Internet is from 1979.  I first owned a computer ($1000+) about 1980.

But I'm just a babe-in-arms compared to other people I know or knew.  One current colleague (yes, he's still leading research), while a student, had discussions with Einstein.

SRI International (rightfully) takes credit for the invention of the mouse, hypertext, and being one end of the first Arpanet (and later Internet) message, and for early robotics work, all within 100' of where I am sitting.  But Stanford also can take the credit because SRI was a part of Stanford at the time.  (All those items are from before I came to SRI.)

[M T]

Not at Stanford, but my first experience with programming computers was Fall of 1966 using an interpreted(!!) language (on an IBM Selectric).  My first use of punch cards came about 3 years later (1969) and was the primary input medium for about 5+ years.  There was a short period around 1972 where I used a teletype machine a few times, but then we quickly moved to CRT (primarily 24x80) devices, and then to bit-mapped displays around 1981.  1972 included doing computer graphics (on a vector display).  (That's about the time that handheld electronic calculators became economical in the $100+ range.) My first use of the Arpanet was June 1974.  My grad school got on the Internet in 1977 -- I have email printouts discussing the strategy of getting it there and the specifics of where to place it on campus.  My oldest email that I've found on the Internet is from 1979.  I first owned a computer ($1000+) about 1980.

But I'm just a babe-in-arms compared to other people I know or knew.  One current colleague (yes, he's still leading research), while a student, had discussions with Einstein.

SRI International (rightfully) takes credit for the invention of the mouse, hypertext, and being one end of the first Arpanet (and later Internet) message, and for early robotics work, all within 100' of where I am sitting.  But Stanford also can take the credit because SRI was a part of Stanford at the time.  (All those items are from before I came to SRI.)