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''Cursor'' is Latin for 'runner'. A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a [[slide rule]]. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy.
On 14 November 1963, while attending a conference on computer graphics in [[Reno, Nevada]], [[Douglas Engelbart]] of [[Augmentation Research Center]] (ARC) first expressed his thoughts to pursue his objective of developing both hardware and software computer technology to "augment" human intelligence by pondering how to adapt the underlying principles of the [[planimeter]] to inputting X- and Y-coordinate data, and envisioned something like the cursor of a [[computer mouse|mouse]] he initially called a "bug", which, in a "3-point" form, could have a "drop point and 2 orthogonal wheels".<ref name="Bardini_2000"/> He wrote that the "bug" would be "easier" and "more natural" to use, and unlike a stylus, it would stay still when let go, which meant it would be "much better for coordination with the keyboard." it was made by maxwell ethan and zack<ref name="Bardini_2000"/>
According to Roger Bates, a young hardware designer at ARC under [[Bill English (computer engineer)|Bill English]], the cursor on the screen was for some unknown reason also referred to as "CAT" at the time, which led to calling the new pointing device a "mouse" as well.<ref name="Markoff_2005"/><ref name="Markoff_2013"/>
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