The first computer mouse was built out of wood.
Why it is true
Invented by Douglas Engelbart in nineteen sixty-four, the first prototype of the computer mouse was a wooden box with two metal wheels on the bottom and a single button, very different from the plastic optical devices we use today.
Source: Smithsonian
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