1969, Music: Belgian Single Charts 02/08/1969

N° 20

The Edwin Hawkins Singers with "Oh, Happy Day"

- Country: USA

- Music/Lyrics: Edwin R. Hawkins

- Highest Position: N° 3

- Weeks in the charts: 10

- Video clip

N° 19

Rita Deneve with "Olé oké"

- Country: Belgium

- Music/Lyrics: Hans Bradtke, Jack Arel, David Best

- Highest Position: N° 17

- Weeks in the charts: 6

- Video clip

N° 18

Cliff Richard with "Big Ship"

- Country: UK

- Music/Lyrics: Raymond Froggatt

- Highest Position: N° 13

- Weeks in the charts: 4

- Video clip

N° 17

Wallace Collection with "Love"

- Country: Belgium

- Music/Lyrics: David Mackay, Sylvain Vanholme, Raymond Vincent

- Highest Position: N° 17

- Weeks in the charts: 3

- Video clip

N° 16

The Vipers with "Looky Looky"

- Country: Belgium

- Music/Lyrics: Giorgio Moroder, Peter Rainford

- Highest Position: N° 16

- Weeks in the charts: 4

- Video clip

N° 15

Tom Jones with "Love Me Tonight"

- Country: UK

- Music/Lyrics: Daniele Pace, Barry Mason, Mario Panzeri, Lorenzo Pilat

- Highest Position: N° 2

- Weeks in the charts: 10

- Video clip

N° 14

The Merrymen with "Big Bamboo"

- Country: Barbados

- Music/Lyrics: Jochem van Renesse, Friedrich Dorff, Robert Aardse

- Highest Position: N° 10

- Weeks in the charts: 11

- Video clip

N° 13

Tommy Roe with "Heather Honey"

- Country: USA

- Music/Lyrics: Tommy Roe

- Highest Position: N° 13

- Weeks in the charts: 4

- Video clip

N° 12

The Rolling Stones with "Honky Tonk Women"

- Country: UK

- Music/Lyrics: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

- Highest Position: N° 5

- Weeks in the charts: 11

- Video clip

N° 11

Lee Lynch with "Stay Awhile"

- Country: Ireland / UK

- Music/Lyrics: Les Reed, Geoff Stephens

- Highest Position: N° 5

- Weeks in the charts: 15

- Video clip

N° 10

Marc Dex with "Aardig meisje van de buiten"

- Country: Belgium

- Music/Lyrics: Peter Callander, Mitch Murray, Terry Rendall

- Highest Position: N° 9

- Weeks in the charts: 14

- Video clip

N° 9

Bee Gees with "Tomorrow Tomorrow"

- Country: UK

- Music/Lyrics: Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb

- Highest Position: N° 8

- Weeks in the charts: 5

- Video clip

N° 8

Creedence Clearwater Revival with "Bad Moon Rising"

- Country: USA

- Music/Lyrics: John Fogerty

- Highest Position: N° 4

- Weeks in the charts: 9

- Video clip

N° 7

Frankie with "Eddy neemt de gele trui"

- Country: Belgium

- Music/Lyrics: ?

- Highest Position: N° 7

- Weeks in the charts: 5

- Video clip

N° 6

Paul Revere & The Raiders with "Let Me"

- Country: USA

- Music/Lyrics: Mark Lindsay

- Highest Position: N° 6

- Weeks in the charts: 6

- Video clip

N° 5

Marva with "Fiesta"

- Country: Belgium

- Music/Lyrics: Rocco Granata, Leo Rozenstraten

- Highest Position: N° 3

- Weeks in the charts: 13

- Video clip

N° 4

Will Tura with "Het kan niet zijn"

- Country: Belgium

- Music/Lyrics: Nelly Byl, Will Tura

- Highest Position: N° 1

- Weeks in the charts: 18

- Video clip

N° 3

Jane Birkin avec Serge Gainsbourg with "Je t'aime... moi non plus"

- Country: France

- Music/Lyrics: Serge Gainsbourg

- Highest Position: N° 2

- Weeks in the charts: 19

- Video clip

N° 2

Elvis Presley with "In The Ghetto"

- Country: USA

- Music/Lyrics: Scott Davis

- Highest Position: N° 1

- Weeks in the charts: 17

- Video clip

N° 1

The Beatles with "The Ballad Of John And Yoko"

- Country: UK

- Music/Lyrics: Salvatore Adamo

- Highest Position: N° 1

- Weeks in the charts: 11

- Video clip

1968, Science and Technology: The First Computer Mouse Demonstration

On 9 December 1968 Douglas Engelbart with a team of 17 scientists presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system (NLS) at Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, USA. The presentation, with the public debut of the computer mouse, was one of the sessions of the “Fall Joint Computer Conference” at the Convention Center in San Francisco. Some 1000 computer specialists attended the demonstration.

In addition to the mouse other innovations were demonstrated by Engelbart and his team, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, and shared-screen collaboration communicating over a network with audio and video interface. All very futuristic in 1968.

Douglas Engelbart

The NLS keyboard console with the chord set on the left and the mouse on the right

The original name for the pointing device, invented in 1964 by Engelbart, was “X-Y position indicator for a display system”. It was patented under that name in 1970. This first mouse was made of a wooden shell with a circuit board and two metal wheels that came into contact with the surface it was being used on. It was designed by Bill English who later in 1972 developed a ball mouse in which a ball replaced the two metal wheels. It worked similar to the German movable ball-based device Rollkugel developed by Rainer Mallebrein at Telefunken in 1968.

Douglas Engelbart

Rollkugel by Rainer Mallebrein (Telefunken, West Germany, 1968)

The Engelbart’s demonstration has grown to a legend with the years, nothing could top it since and it is now described as "the mother of all demos".

First mouse demonstration

Full demonstration video

1967, Car Spotting: 54the AutoRai, Car Park Amsterdam, Netherlands

Left to right

First row, bottom to top

NSU Sport Prinz, Citroën 2CV, Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Fiat 850, Ford Cortina Mk I, Austin-Morris Mini, unidentified car parked around the corner probably Opel Rekord A or B.

Second row, bottom to top

Mercedes-Benz W110, DAF 750, Citroën 2CV, Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Ford Taunus 17M (P3, "Badewannetaunus" ("Bath-tub Taunus")), Opel Rekord P1, Fiat 1300 (on the road), Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), unidentified light coloured car, Opel Rekord P2 Caravan, unidentified light coloured car.

Third row, bottom to top

NSU Prinz 4L, Ford Taunus 12M (P4), Opel Rekord P2, Simca 1000, Ford Cortina Mk I, Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), MG B, unidentified American car, Fiat 500, Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Austin A40 Farina, unidentified car probably Opel or Chevrolet, Simca 1000, Renault 4, unidentified car, Citroën 2CV, Ford Taunus 12M (P4), Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), unidentified car probably Volkswagen 1500 Notchback (Type 3), Peugeot 404, after that it’s getting very blurry.

Fourth row, bottom to top

Volkswagen 1500 Notchback (Type 3), Volkswagen Transporter T1 (Type 2), Ford Taunus 17M Turnier (P3, "Badewannetaunus" ("Bath-tub Taunus")), Ford Cortina Mk I, DAF 750 or DAF Daffodil, unidentified car probably Opel Rekord A, Ford Taunus 12M (P4), Ford Anglia (105E), after that it’s getting very blurry.

Fifth row, bottom to top

Opel Rekord P2, the other cars are unrecognizable except for one Volkswagen Beetle.

Sixth row, bottom to top

Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Ford Taunus 17M (P3, "Badewannetaunus" ("Bath-tub Taunus")), Fiat 1500, Fiat 1300, Opel Kapitän / Admiral / Diplomat A, Opel Kadett A, Ford Taunus 17M (P3, "Badewannetaunus" ("Bath-tub Taunus")), Ford Taunus 17M (P3, "Badewannetaunus" ("Bath-tub Taunus")), Fiat 1300 or 1500, Fiat 600, unidentified car probably Ford Cortina Mk I, Ford Taunus 17M/20M (P5), Opel Rekord A, Fiat 500 or 600, unidentified car, Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), after that it’s getting very blurry.

Seventh row, bottom to top

Opel Kapitän / Admiral / Diplomat A, Ford Taunus 17M Combi (P2, "Baroque Taunus" or "Flying carpet"), Renault Dauphine, Ford Taunus 12M (P4), Opel Rekord B, Volkswagen 1500 Karmann Ghia (Type 34), Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Opel Rekord A, Fiat 850, Mercedes-Benz W110, Volkswagen 1500 Notchback (Type 3), Mercedes-Benz W120/W121, Volvo Amazon, after that it’s getting very blurry.

Eighth row, bottom to top

GAZ M21 Volga, Borgward Isabella Combi, Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Opel Rekord A, unidentified car probably Ford Taunus 12M (P1, "Side-stripes Taunus"), after that it’s getting very blurry.

Ninth row, bottom to top

Renault Dauphine, Volkswagen 1500 Notchback (Type 3), Volkswagen 1500 Fastback (Type 3), Opel Kadett B, Ford Taunus 12M (P4), Citroën DS, Opel Kadett A, Opel Rekord A, Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Austin-Morris 1100 (BMC ADO16), Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Opel Rekord P2 Caravan, Ford Taunus 17M (P3, "Badewannetaunus" ("Bath-tub Taunus")), unidentified car probably Opel Rekord A or B, Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), Opel Rekord P2, Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), DAF 750 or DAF Daffodil, Ford Taunus 17M Combi (P2, "Baroque Taunus" or "Flying carpet"), Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle, Type 1), after that it’s getting very blurry.