Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Once upon a time, long before smartphones or even laptops were ubiquitous, the computer mouse was new, and it was thrilling. The 1984 Macintosh wasn’t the ...

Since its inception in the mid-'60s, the "mouse," as it came to be known, has morphed and mutated into a diverse assortment of styles to accommodate efficiency, ergonomics and portability. In this ...

The pointing device was "a major selling point of the Macintosh" when personal computing went mainstream.

The personal computer that introduced the mouse to the world — with a similarly unwieldy name, the Xerox 8010 Star Information System, and the clunky look common to early personal computers ...