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The hackaday article doesn't add much. The actual article is: https://www.inverse.com/innovation/blinking-cursor-history https://www.inverse.com/innovation/bli

• JdeBP 5y ago
  ... and the history professor from the University of Reading has the history wrong. As I wrote at https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11032/1932 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11032/1932 , whilst Charles S. Kiesling's patent was filed in August 1967, the blinking cursor had actually been around since at least the Datanet-760 from General Electric coming out in 1965. The patent filing date is not its birth date. It has not turned 54 this year.