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== History == The first<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.365trucking.com/blog/2016/1/4/a-quick-history-of-drag-and-drop-a-gophore-article|title=A Quick History of Drag and Drop β A GoPhore Article|website=365Trucking.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-02|archive-date=2019-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702123101/https://www.365trucking.com/blog/2016/1/4/a-quick-history-of-drag-and-drop-a-gophore-article|url-status=dead}}</ref> pointing device gesture, the "[[click and drag|drag]]", was introduced by [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] to replace a dedicated "move" button on mice shipped with its Macintosh and Lisa computers. Dragging involves holding down a pointing device button while moving the pointing device; the software interprets this as an action distinct from separate clicking and moving behaviors. Unlike most pointing device gestures, it does not involve the tracing of any particular shape. Although the "drag" behavior has been adopted in a huge variety of software packages, few other gestures have been as successful.
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