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piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---The middle mouse button has been around forever.  

All X11 workstations had one.  Because of this, X11 is built expecting a middle mouse button as the paste in terminals.  That's standard X11, not Linux.  Because of crappy two-button-only-mice, XFree86 and XOrg has a setting so that pressing both Left and Right at the same time emulates a middle mouse button click, but it needs to be enabled in the config files.

You could almost always find a PC mouse with a middle button and you damn well needed one for high end applications.  They weren't quite so common because (a)many mouse makers were cheap and (b) there was the "average computer users are morons" philosophy.  In other words, two buttons would be less confusing than three.  

Then the scrolling wheel was introduced and, what the heck, lets just make that a mouse button too.
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I found it extremely odd that a (new enough) mouse I used to use had a scrollwheel that you couldn't click...

Jack2000:
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mobrien_12:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---I found it extremely odd that a (new enough) mouse I used to use had a scrollwheel that you couldn't click...
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Yeah that is odd.   Who made it?

GenuineAdvantage:
Doesn't seem that odd to me. I had a mouse with 2 scrollwheels, neither of them clickable. But it had 3 buttons, in weird positions. Oh and it was a trackball mouse. Made by A4Tech which are probably out of business now. I gave that to my sister.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---Yeah that is odd.   Who made it?
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It was an Iqon (or is it Icon) one IIRC. Probably something they bought and put their stamp on.

I've never bought a mouse, I just use the best of what everyone else throws out. Right now a Dell ("by Microsoft") mouse. That Iqon mouse would be in the attic, where there is no light.

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