Mouse? or Hamster? I note some folk now choose to use a "wireless aka a cordless mouse" with their computers.
But that raises an interesting question and its surprising just who has entered the discussion.


A mouse has a long tail ... or a "cord"
A hamster doesn't.


SO... if our wireless computer "mouse" device now has no tail .... isn't it actually really far more accurately described as a "hamster" device.??


Logitech has officially said so..


www.logitech.com/en-au/promo/hamsters.html


And even Elon Musk thinks so...
www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1061434-elon-m...ename-wireless-mouse


The first prompt for the change seems to have begun here.
www.change.org/p/donald-trump-rename-the...2d-b9ac-f070cab9d5b4


SO... what do you think ? As another "creature of habit" we humans often seem to find it hard to shake our old long practiced behaviours.





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its still a mouse, like me...

QuietMouse01 wrote: its still a mouse, like me...

Well I guess 'QuietMouse" ......... There is only one way that we here on forum can be certain that is the truth, the whole truth, & nuffin' but the truth. ...

Are you really prepared to bare all for the sake of the integrity of our forum.?

As per the posting there is clearly only one way to differentiate - are you up for it ???

( I think a photo posted here would satisfy most of us rather than a real live "in the flesh" demonstration )






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Im a quiet, shy mouse....

People can call it what they want, I will always refer to it as a mouse, with or without a tail .

I think they will always be a Mouse…..

Though there are plenty of made up technical sounding names for this input device the inventor Douglas Engelbart who at the time was the director of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), in Menlo Park, California, always called it a mouse, for obvious reasons. The first mouse came into being in 1964 as part of a larger project to augment human intellect.

KayyGee wrote: Though there are plenty of made up technical sounding names for this input device the inventor Douglas Engelbart who at the time was the director of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), in Menlo Park, California, always called it a mouse, for obvious reasons. The first mouse came into being in 1964 as part of a larger project to augment human intellect.

Well almost correct. In fact in the beginning when designing it he actually called it " a bug " it later became " a mouse "

And this begs another question for the sexpots out there ... what is a "nipple" on a computer ?

Now don't telll me you haven't seen a nipple on a computer




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It’s a little red button in the middle of the key board. Not sure what it’s for.

Aida wrote: It’s a little red button in the middle of the key board. Not sure what it’s for.

It’s used as a secondary cursor control.