1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco, CA, December, has since become known as The Mother of All Demos. That was where Doug first showed NLS to the world In a remarkable 90-minute multimedia presentation, Doug used NLS to outline and illustrate his points, while others of his staff linked in from his lab at SRI to demonstrate key features of the system.

This was the world debut of the mouse, hypermedia, and on-screen video teleconferencing.