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by URSpider94 2230 days ago
They never say that Apple invented the cursor. What they do say is that Apple brought the mouse-controlled cursor to the mass market, which is true. They are actually careful to explain its origins at Xerox PARC, and they even show a video from that time.
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And they got that completely wrong! The video at the top of the page, and the two linked in the text, had nothing to do with PARC.

The videos are from The Mother of All Demos with Douglas Engelbart and Bill English at Stanford Research Institute on December 9, 1968.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

https://www.wired.com/story/how-doug-engelbart-pulled-off-th...

PARC was founded in 1970.

https://www.parc.com/about-parc/parc-history/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)

(The Wikipedia article says 1969 in one place and 1970 in another, but 1970 is what PARC's site says.)