Editing Mousepad (section)

==History==
[[Image:Mouse tray.png|right|thumb|Mousetray screenshot from Engelbart's video]]
During a [[The Mother of All Demos|1967 presentation]] by [[Douglas Engelbart]] marking the public debut of a mouse,<ref name=demo>{{cite web 
| url = http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html 
| title = The Demo (article on Engelbart's demo) 
| access-date = 2007-02-26 
| archive-date = 2008-01-18 
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080118025620/http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html 
| url-status = live 
}}, final video</ref> 
Engelbart used a control console designed by Matt P. Brown of [[Herman Miller (office equipment)|Herman Miller]] that included a keyboard and an inset portion used as a support area for the mouse.<ref name=demo/><ref>{{cite web 
| url = https://strumace.com/blogs/read/does-a-personalized-mousepad-really-make-a-difference-in-gaming 
| title = Mousepad Guide From Strumace 
| access-date = 2022-02-26 
| archive-date = 2022-07-30 
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220730122150/https://strumace.com/blogs/read/does-a-personalized-mousepad-really-make-a-difference-in-gaming 
| url-status = live 
}}, time: 1:12:35</ref>
According to Kelley<ref>{{cite web 
| url = http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Designer/0,,a10-c80-b14,00.html 
| title = Matt P. Brown (Herman Miller page) 
| access-date = 2007-02-26 
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061029011938/http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Designer/0,,a10-c80-b14,00.html 
| archive-date = 2006-10-29 
| url-status = dead 
}}</ref> 
and also stated by Alex Pang,<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2002/3/2002_3_48.shtml
 |title       = The Making of the Mouse
 |author      = Alex Soojung-Kin Pang
 |access-date  = 2007-02-26
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929120300/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2002/3/2002_3_48.shtml
 |archive-date = 2007-09-29
}}</ref> Kelley designed the first mousepad a year later, in 1969.

Details of a mousepad designed by Armando M. Fernandez were published in the Xerox Disclosure Journal in 1979 with the description:<ref>{{cite web 
| url = https://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/000024222/ 
| title = CRT Cursor Control Mechanism Pad 
| work = Xerox Disclosure Journal 
| date = November–December 1979 
| access-date = 2020-07-23 
| archive-date = 2020-08-03 
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200803115707/https://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/000024222 
| url-status = live 
}}</ref>
{{Blockquote|CRT Cursor Control Mechanism Pad<br />
To assist the operation of a cathode ray tube pointer 10 wherein a metal ball is rolled on a hard surface, the disclosed pad may be utilized. A resilient, rubber-like material 12 is bonded or otherwise attached to a hard base material 14 which keeps the rubber-like material flat. The base has four rubber-like pads 16 on the opposite side from the resilient material to refrain the pad from sliding on the surface of a table, for instance.|Xerox Disclosure Journal, Volume 4, Number 6, November/December 1979}}

By 1982, most users of the Xerox ball mouse were using special pads to increase the friction of the ball in the mouse.<ref>{{cite journal | journal = VLSI Design | title = Designing and Testing the Optical Mouse | author = Richard F. Lyon and Martin P. Haeberli | year = 1982 | issue = Jan./Feb | page = 21 | url = http://www.dicklyon.com/tech/OMouse/DesigningTestingOMouse.pdf | access-date = 2007-08-10 | archive-date = 2022-03-31 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220331093003/http://www.dicklyon.com/tech/OMouse/DesigningTestingOMouse.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>

The first commercial manufacturer of mousepads was Moustrak, founded by Bob McDermand. The company began gaining traction when Apple decided to distribute its mousepads, featuring the Apple logo, to computer stores in the United States. Moustrak signed licensing deals with Disney, Paramount, and LucasFilm, and advertised in magazines including ''MacWorld''. However, by the end of the 1980s, lower cost mousepads turned the product into a commodity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tedium.co/2016/07/12/mouse-pads-invention-history/|title=The Best Mouse Pads Money Could Buy|last=Smith|first=Ernie|date=12 July 2016|website=Tedium.|access-date=25 July 2016|archive-date=2 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202211949/https://tedium.co/2016/07/12/mouse-pads-invention-history/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/15/science/personal-computers-holiday-hardware.html|title=PERSONAL COMPUTERS; Holiday Hardware|last=Lewis|first=Peter H.|date=15 December 1987|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 July 2016|archive-date=21 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021171352/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/15/science/personal-computers-holiday-hardware.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' tracks the term ''mouse pad'' to the August 24, 1983, publication of ''InfoWorld'', and the predominantly British term ''mousemat'' to October 17, 1989, in the publication ''3D''.<ref>Oxford English Dictionary Online, "mouse", compounds 20. d.</ref>