A History Of Mouse From Mechanical To Wireless

Doug Engelbart, an American engineer and a computer pioneer was an inventor of the computer mouse in 1972. The mouse looked like a small wooden block. It had a cable that connected to the computer and two wheels on it's back that could map the vectors on the surface being used on. It also had a single click button at it's right upper corner that was connected to an electronic sensor which would then send the signal through the wire to the computer. It was called a mechanical mouse.

Mechanical Mouse
With the development in graphical user interface in computer system, Xerox Alto computer system launched a mouse into the market. It became a huge success.

When IBM launched a new Personal Computer/ AT system, the mouse was integrated very well within it's graphical user interface. So much that it became a major input system for modern computers. Now the mouse was made easy to fit in hand and rectangular edges were cut out. There were two buttons featured in a standard mouse. The wheels were replaced by a ball and a scroll wheel on top was later added as well.

On the other hand, Apple integrated a mouse into their system. It was developed by IDEO. This mouse also replaced the wheels with a ball but featured only one button for their system.

In 1987, an early prototype of the top mounted scrolling wheel mouse developed by Jack McCauley for gaming applications.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_wheel

Optical Mouse
Although the concept of optical mouse was already created in 1980, it was not until two decades after that the optical mouse was widely used over a mechanical ones. In fact, most of the users used the mechanical mouse even until 2007 simply because the mechanical mouse was cheaper than the optical mouse.

Things took a different road after 2007, with the rise of internet connection and gaming all around the world, the demand of the PC system increased which significantly increased the supplies of the computer mouse too. As a result, around 2008, the price of optical mouse got significantly low due to a huge supplies of it.

Wireless Mouse
After 2012, the concept of wireless mouse started to take the market which is the next big thing in computer world today. Nowadays there are various of types of mouse available in market to choose from, that fits out needs.

Logitech releases the world's first wireless mouse to use radio frequency (RF) transmission, the Cordless MouseMan
Source: https://www.macworld.com/article/1137400/input-devices/mouse40.html