We guess it depends on how you define the general public. The article purports that the Apple II was the first place the general public would encounter the invention. An ex-Navy man, patent names his employer at the time, Sperry Rand, where he’d worked since 1955.Īccording to the post, little is known of, one of the many unsung engineers who create everyday life.
In a 1967 patent, he described the blinking cursor. We were surprised that the father of the blinking cursor was one guy. But the true story is much deeper than that.
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Maybe a terminal manufacturer put a toggle flip flop on the cursor output and it caught on. You’d assume there wasn’t much to the story. In an interesting post on Inverse, does a deep dive into something you probably don’t think about very often: the blinking cursor.
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