On 14 November 1963, while attending a conference on computer graphics in Reno, Nevada, Douglas Engelbart of Augmentation Research Center (ARC) first expressed his thoughts to pursue his objective of developing both hardware and software computer technology to "augment" human intelligence by pondering how to adapt the underlying principles of the planimeter to inputting X- and Y-coordinate data, and envisioned something like the cursor of a mouse he initially called a "bug", which, in a "3-point" form, could have a "drop point and 2 orthogonal wheels". The term was then transferred to computers through analogy. A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. In human–computer interaction, a cursor is an indicator used to show the current position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to text input.Ĭursor is Latin for 'runner'.
A blinking text cursor while typing Wikipedia.
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