Did you know that you've been using your computer mouse wheel incorrectly all your life? At least that's the opinion of its inventor, Jack McCauley, who claims that he himself wanted it to move back and forth across digital space, rather than up and down, as we've been doing since the wheel has been an integral part of computer mice.
You imagine he would have computer mouse wheel, that invaluable add-on without which web page scrolling would be a far less elegant task, a different function.
This could very well happen if the wishes of the self-proclaimed inventor of the computer mouse wheel were heeded Jack McCauley, or co-founder of the company Oculus.
He claims that the wheel was originally intended for completely different tasks, namely scrolling through digital space back and forth, but not up and down, as we are used to (you can listen to the conversation with him in the video above).
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He was the first to invent the computer mouse Douglas Engelbart in 1963, and we got the first mouse with a wheel in 1985. It came into commercial use ten years later (Genius EasyScroll).
