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The acronym WIMP stands for Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing device. The invention of the WIMP interface is credited to Douglas Englebart and the Human Augmentation Project at SRI in the late sixties. At the SRI lab, located in the area of California which came to be known as Silicon Valley, Englebart experimented with a number of clumsy-looking wooden mouse prototypes for selection and highlighting, menus, and text-based windows