Is there actual info on why they called it a mouse? Because now I am curious.
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There's an etymology section about it on the wiki article on mice.
2 reasons
1 - they kinda resemble a milouse with a tail 2 - the cursor on the screen used to be called a 'CAT'
It was in the 60s! Look up Douglas Engelbart.
and the modern day microplastic-in-balls equivalent:
RGB gamer sperm 😎
Gamers rise up
But at least, the small red trackpoint on Lenovo keyboard, is called a nipple or clito :)
Fun fact: The mouse was already invented in the 60s and was part of the famous "Mother of all Demos" which shaped modern computing like no other single event since then.
Kind of good that the guy died in 2013, before the whole networked-computers thing started really going to shit
And the wireless model is a hamster.
Poor kid, we visit his grave every year on that hill he died on. Such a shame.
Wireless mouse is not named hampter :(