{"id":2324,"date":"2010-09-05T18:26:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T22:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2010-09-17T20:25:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T00:25:16","slug":"mice-a-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2324","title":{"rendered":"Mice, a mouse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">H<\/span>ow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2325\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2325\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/a-mouse-136x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Trackman Wheel\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/a-mouse-136x150.png 136w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/a-mouse-273x300.png 273w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/a-mouse.png 455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a>many mice (computer mice that is) does one go through in one&#8217;s life? I&#8217;ve never thought of that but I think I&#8217;ve had more than 10 the last what, 18 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>My very first mouse was the one that was bought for our MSX home computer (made by ASCII Corporation?): it was overly expensive and initially (since the MSX software wasn&#8217;t really GUI based yet) it felt awkward to use. Only with the introduction of Windows 3.1 (for me that was probably around 1993) the mouse death race really started: I&#8217;ve seen Genius mice, Logitech and eventually (surprised that they&#8217;d started to make mice) Microsoft mice. I generally believe Logitech mice last longer but, that&#8217;s probably a personal (subjective) opinion. I do love Logitech&#8217;s &#8216;Trackman Wheel&#8217; mice (which is something I use on-the-side): They are hard to come by these days as they are being replaced (apparently) by those &#8216;index-finger-based&#8217; Trackmans. As far as I know, this Trackman is still the longest lasting mouse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1138\">in my possession<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious about the future prospects of the computer mouse: With the rise of touchscreens (and the popularity of pen-based solutions) I wonder if the near future will make an end to computer mice&#8217;s ubiquity. The only use I&#8217;d see is for typical PC games.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"reference\"><strong>10\/17\/2010<\/strong>: Looks like Logitech just released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logitech.com\/en-ca\/mice-pointers\/trackballs\/devices\/7365\">their newest trackball<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-20016574-1.html\">CNet<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many mice (computer mice that is) does one go through in one&#8217;s life? I&#8217;ve never thought of that but I think I&#8217;ve had more than 10 the last what, 18 years. My very first mouse was the one that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[440,581,441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}