Good Lord did I hate trackball's. I remember finding optical Belkin mice at Big Lots for a decent price and never went back. Though the thick cords still sucked and would frequently get tangled up to the point where I ditched wires once wireless optical mice came on the market.
I used mine so much I wore the trackball down on one side and it would slide and not roll . Strangely it was cheaper to buy a new mouse than to buy a replacement trackball, which was like double the price. I miss CompUSA.
Optical/laser mice also need cleaning. Or at least the cheap ones that have no teflon feet do. Gunk sticks to the plastic feet and the mouse won't slide properly if not cleaned.
@@HerculesStrength I'm half convinced that you're actually an FBI agent flexing on all of us by letting us know you're ever present in our online communities.
@@irllcd13 nah, the xerox research project group, or however they called it, came up with very many concepts xerox didn't really want, but are great inventions that are basic functionality in nowerdays electronics, like the GraphicalUserInterface
'member when people claimed the "end of the mouse" with the introduction of touch screen (especially after the iPad) and voice control? Still waiting.... :D
@@chistinelane I wish I had the will to learn these. Nothing makes you look like you know what you're doing on a computer more than not touching the mouse. It also legitimately seems faster.
Sadly it still makes tech with better build quality and design. If you show me an Alienware and a MacBook without showing spec. I will always choose MacBook
@@420sakura1 lol that’s the exact opposite of the truth, find a good razor laptop and use that with mac os if you have to. Mac's only good point is their software and ecosystem, the hardware they use is extremely prone to failure with expensive replacement costs, and most failures can just be avoided with small changes. Apple as a company would rather put a ticking time bomb in your hardware then make it responsibly because they know that you will end up giving them more money when it eventually dies. I'm sure that as an apple fan, you would like to believe that I’m not telling you the truth. If you think so, please go watch some Louis Rossman vids on irresponsible company behavior from apple.
Feynstein 100 Xerox set up the Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in California to research what a digital office could look like (they were worried about photocopier sales). They got some great minds together and they actually come up with some amazing things - basically designed the computer of the early 90’s, but in the late 70’s. They showed their creations to headquarters, but the bosses didn’t understand it. Jobs heard about it, arranged to see it and then licensed the tech (and took some staff) and made the Macintosh. While looking for software developers, he showed a prototype to Gates, and the rest is history.
the doco series 'triumph of the nerds', you can find it on youtube. heaps of good interviews and insights in there. Pirates of Silicon Valley was partially inspired by the totn, but stretched some aspects for the story.
3:20 You should have mentioned that Apple first used the mouse in the Apple Lisa, which predated the original Macintosh (and the original Microsoft Mouse).
We used to dismantle mouses and stick foil inside the top because they would stop working in sunlight as it penetrated the case and interfered with the infrared sensors
@@iceangelx22 You'd be surprised how moronic people are. Too deep into MEME's and furry porn to learn descriptors for different aspects of human nature.
5:16 A boomslang (pronounced bwoom-slung) is a very deadly south African snake. It comes from afrikaans. Boom=tree, slang=snake so it translates to tree snake. Edit: I know this was very unnecessary🤣
Gaming mice actually needed to be optical because of games like quake. Quickly flicking a mouse around would actually break the mechanism that the ball was attached to really often
*when you put a full 32-arm processor to a mouse...* _Yo we heard you like computers, so we made a computer out of the thing with which you control your computer!_
3:28 Apple had the Lisa before the Macintosh - the Mac was a VERY cut-down Lisa in it's first model. And the "deal" to enable the use of Xerox tech etc was the result of Xerox SUING Apple about ripping the GUI and other Xerox technology off to create the Lisa and Macintosh, it DID NOT HAPPEN before those were created.
Xerox has a facility known as PARC - Palo Alto Research Center. Research is all they do. I don't know about now but back in the day they never applied for patents. One day Steve Jobs went there to visit a friend. He saw not only his first mouse but also a GUI. He went back to his office and put his tech people into duplicating what he had seen. Apple applied for and received patents on both. Then Steve had the gall to sue Microsoft for infringing on their patent with Windows. Such a nice guy. That first Apple with a GUI was called the Lisa. Why? That was the in-house name as a joke because it was the name of Jobs illegitimate daughter. Such a nice guy. It took so long to get the computer to work that the joke name leaked, so Apple felt it beneficial to use the name it was already known by. The Lisa used software-based graphics. That was much, much slower than hardware-based gr5aphics. Also, ram was very expensive back then. While the common price point at that time was around $2,500 the Lisa was over $10k. Needless to say it was not Apple's best seller. Jobs was good at marketing and hired good designers but the other Steve was the tech brain at Apple.
Anyone who is interested in odd computer hardware, check out Lazy Game Reviews' series called oddware. There is a mouse with a calculator built-in. It seriously has an entire, full scale calculator built in. It's called the Pro hance mouse. Go check it out. It's really good
6:05 I have one of those Logitech MX1000/MX Laser. Still works. Sadly its not as responsive as it once was. Got it in a kit with a Keyboard. Sadly don't have the keyboard any more. But i loved those mice's. I have been using Logitech mouses for 16-18~ years :)
I owned that mouse shown at 5:11 for almost a decade. It's basic two button sibling of the same era (USB w/ PS2 adapter) still graces my desk at work and I hold onto it for dear life. :D
Glad to see at least a photo of the Intellimouse explorer. But one of the first gaming mousr was the Microsoft Intellimouse 1.1 due to his awesome sensor MLT04, then came the Intellimouse 3.0 with a more ergonomical shape and a 9000fps MLT04. It's sad to see today now mouse producers focus more on DPI rather than the sensor itself and the FPS IMO
I too have always been curious about how the Trackpoint works. I've got an old IBM M13 keyboard that has it between the G, H, and B key and love it. I've also got a black one, which I believe is the only model that was released in that color.
Didn't you see the *1996 flashing in front of your face? You've got to get some glasses. Also he isn't going to redo the whole shot just because of one mistake.
![[RANT] The DUMBEST Thing About USB](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gShRBsahzXg/mqdefault.jpg)
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I can relate to this because I use a mouse
I only use cats.
Easier when you have bigger hands.
@@موسى_7 i have dogs, hands are too easy to use, I use legs
Omg same
@@vacumviovana8801 not to mention all the shit it is not able take out.
GamingWithArbion Gaming mmmm, *noice*
5:30 you really had to choose that mousepad for the explanation...
Yuck
ah yes
Yes ded pol
Why not!!
yes, because who does not like deadpool
Believe or not, my school still use a ball mouse with a monitor older than my teacher age
Whaa
Don’t doubt it
What the ....
i trust you
Minh quang is my brothers name
When the scroll wheel came out we called it the clitoris.
Damn I'm old.
I wish my Mrs. Would play with her scroll wheel for me
Yuj
clitoris
3:59
Huh? Is that a minecraft mod?
Could men not find it?
Who here is old enough to remember having to remove the ball of a mouse to clear all the gunk off the axle every month or so?
Or losing the cap thingy and never being able to use that mouse again. I was that child.
Good Lord did I hate trackball's. I remember finding optical Belkin mice at Big Lots for a decent price and never went back. Though the thick cords still sucked and would frequently get tangled up to the point where I ditched wires once wireless optical mice came on the market.
I used mine so much I wore the trackball down on one side and it would slide and not roll . Strangely it was cheaper to buy a new mouse than to buy a replacement trackball, which was like double the price. I miss CompUSA.
Optical/laser mice also need cleaning. Or at least the cheap ones that have no teflon feet do. Gunk sticks to the plastic feet and the mouse won't slide properly if not cleaned.
Myrmidon me
The very first mouse had a braided cord.
Noice
bruh
Lol
@@HerculesStrength ooo
@@HerculesStrength I'm half convinced that you're actually an FBI agent flexing on all of us by letting us know you're ever present in our online communities.
Yes im an actual fbi agent but im retired
Xerox was such a pioneer back in those days, absolute legends.
Kind of like Intel? And Nvidia?
@@irllcd13 nah, the xerox research project group, or however they called it, came up with very many concepts xerox didn't really want, but are great inventions that are basic functionality in nowerdays electronics, like the GraphicalUserInterface
I remember my teachers wouldn’t even say laminate they just say xerox this for me
And the Royal Navy lol
Thanks to them, The whole idea of a computer mouse became.
Windows operating system was created by Xerox, and Gates simply bought it and adopted to common use on PC.
'member when people claimed the "end of the mouse" with the introduction of touch screen (especially after the iPad) and voice control? Still waiting.... :D
A totally cute and innocent guy it's technically not needed if you can memorize the right keyboard shortcuts.
@@chistinelane I wish I had the will to learn these. Nothing makes you look like you know what you're doing on a computer more than not touching the mouse. It also legitimately seems faster.
Lovely using a touch screen whilst eating fish and chips with salt sauce on em!
@@trajectoryunown it makes you look like an idiot.
Csgo and the y u the y u the y u the y u the y u the y u the y z
Sadly, apple turned from a tech revolution company to a premium expensive company.
Lol it always was that dumb steve supporting the mac instead of apple 2
xxalex423xx He was young back then, didn’t realize Wozniak’s vision
Apple is trash... It was never like this at the beginning of apple
Sadly it still makes tech with better build quality and design. If you show me an Alienware and a MacBook without showing spec. I will always choose MacBook
@@420sakura1 lol that’s the exact opposite of the truth, find a good razor laptop and use that with mac os if you have to. Mac's only good point is their software and ecosystem, the hardware they use is extremely prone to failure with expensive replacement costs, and most failures can just be avoided with small changes. Apple as a company would rather put a ticking time bomb in your hardware then make it responsibly because they know that you will end up giving them more money when it eventually dies.
I'm sure that as an apple fan, you would like to believe that I’m not telling you the truth. If you think so, please go watch some Louis Rossman vids on irresponsible company behavior from apple.
3:25 Thats still better than my setup 😐
Random Trust me, it isn’t. It doesn’t even have a color screen
@@nexenojustice552 bro u missed the point
@@nexenojustice552 r/woooosh
Arda Ozden Just getting the facts out there, plus this ain’t reddit
@@nexenojustice552 wooooshes happen outside of Reddit too ತ_ʖತ
0:58 That setup looks dope
Ikr
Ikr
Ikr
Ikr
Ikr
This guy sounds like he’s gonna sell me a car
*whispers: **lttstore.com*
r/rareinsults
lmfao
I feel bad for Xerox. They could have been a great software company.
Did Microsoft and Apple actually rip Xerox off?
where i live Photocopy is called xerox so there's that..
Feynstein 100
Xerox set up the Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in California to research what a digital office could look like (they were worried about photocopier sales). They got some great minds together and they actually come up with some amazing things - basically designed the computer of the early 90’s, but in the late 70’s.
They showed their creations to headquarters, but the bosses didn’t understand it. Jobs heard about it, arranged to see it and then licensed the tech (and took some staff) and made the Macintosh. While looking for software developers, he showed a prototype to Gates, and the rest is history.
+Michael Collins That sounds exactly like the plot of Pirates of Silicon Valley. Do we have any references for this?
the doco series 'triumph of the nerds', you can find it on youtube. heaps of good interviews and insights in there. Pirates of Silicon Valley was partially inspired by the totn, but stretched some aspects for the story.
Ahhh, the ball mouse......those were the old days. No, I didn't forget "good".
Aaron Blue lol
Cerus98 you got a point. 👍🏾
Plus they were good for throwing at people with their metal cores.
Metal cores? You must have bought the real high end class. I never got anything else then plastic and rubber.
it was metal core surrounded by rubber
Bill English died today. He helped build the first prototype of the mouse as we know it today. RIP.
I'm late but R. I. P
Condolences for him :(
look up håkan lans
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kan_Lans
my grandad is called bill english
what a coincedence
for 1 moment , i though that u had written Billie Eilish 😂
9 minute Techquickie.
3 minute Linustechtips.
Anyone else see a problem here?
Linustechtips is da Best channel
One guy too many shows?
When they add up it equals 69
You mean Linus sex tips
*No.*
1:03 Those are some odd looking horses.
Agreed
People sitting on a people sitting on a motorcycle.
I think long version of this will make a tongue twisters.
Thats not a horse you dumb. Those are unicorns
3:20 You should have mentioned that Apple first used the mouse in the Apple Lisa, which predated the original Macintosh (and the original Microsoft Mouse).
5:31 this cannot be unseen....
You are the first comment what comments 5:31
ILLUMINATI
this has been scarred into my mind
5:46 sound efect
2:44 I swear I hear auto tune 😂
xD
2:34
I thought his voice was normally this squeaky
i heard assholes
Linus is dropping a killer verse on our asses.
We used to dismantle mouses and stick foil inside the top because they would stop working in sunlight as it penetrated the case and interfered with the infrared sensors
Back when balls were not always associated with genitals.
I love gripping wooden mice with it's ball at the bottom and wooden body. what the hell am I doing
Now here's a funny comment 🤣
You have alot of balls for commenting this
Yeah simple days where you could just call it ball instead of kickball basketball
How about eggs?
3:50 reminds me of the cyber truck
5:46 sound efect
Lol
Lol
pro pro ???
??
Im doing a science project on computer mice, so this helps me
Same
5:52 Huh, no wonder my 2010 Logitech mouse advertises the laser part so much...
That deadpool mouse pad tho
Kinda kinky
now you should do a video called: History of the Mouse (animal edition)
Bruh 🤣
Don't be such an IDIOT
05:30 no one going to comment on that
TheAverageNoob lol
05:31
XDDDD WTF
TheAverageNoob LOL WTF
@@aaronmorino4235 its Deadpool with boobs wtf
I feel stupid saying this.
6:56 his voice just decides not to live anymore
I see lol
@@iceangelx22 You'd be surprised how moronic people are. Too deep into MEME's and furry porn to learn descriptors for different aspects of human nature.
@@prezidenttrump5171 memes*
@@JorgetePanete MeeMee's.
@@prezidenttrump5171 r/wooooooosh
Actually the ball wasn't the problem of ball mice, it was the axles on the inside that got gunked up
mouse used to have some balls.............
:))))
Your comment should read:
Mice used to have some big balls,
learn proper grammar dammit!!!!!
HYAHaHA
Now they just have small hole that glows red ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Who else remembers having to clean the gunk out of the mouse so the ball would move properly?
Plus12 Gaming I still do keep it 1996
Plus12 Gaming how many ball mice have u owned we owed 2 and 1 as for my toy laptop
5:16
A boomslang (pronounced bwoom-slung) is a very deadly south African snake. It comes from afrikaans. Boom=tree, slang=snake so it translates to tree snake.
Edit: I know this was very unnecessary🤣
In het Nederlands is het dan beter vertaald, letterlijk gewoon 'boom' en 'slang'.
Yster!!!!
Respect
Lol
Razer has always marketed products under a specific type
Keyboard often being insects
Mice reptiles
Gamepads mythology and so on
@@fidelcastro4783 speak English please
Techquickie now isn't so quickie at 9 minutes.
Beanie Draws Well there going as fast as possible
Actually i would thank them, coz earlier episodes were simply too small to cover the topic
well, they don't have 'as fast as possible' at the title :P
We need a new Ltt channel, techslowie 😂
it says nowhere that they are going as fast as possible
still with the JIBO shirt.....linus really loves that shirt
I know right
Thanks used this for my school project
You should program an rgb mouse to change colors based on its location on the mouse pad.
Wait, is Linus wearing a Jibo shirt?
Are you being held hostage, Linus?
I thought he hate JIBO
Well he spent a lot of money on that thing, so... I guess he is his own hostage
Jibo got better and he made a new jibo vid, he actually likes jibo now
Lazy
Yea I know right I thought he hated Jibo?
At that point in time, he wore the shirt satirically.
I remember day when switched from ball-mouse to optical-mouse.
It was amazing :D I could win Counter-Strik1.5 without problem
Me too i plei conter stirk 1.69 also wun ez
@@cementguy2183 GYGY
@@cementguy2183 great English dude
I remember when we switched from an optical mouse to a ball mouse.
I remember using a ball mouse when I was 6 or 7 on our old Windows 95 PC. Technology has come a long way.
can i get an i7 in a mouse?
No! That's ridiculous.
Yes, if you want a 3rd degree burn
A mouse with a fan?
I have a razer basilisk feels like a i7
The Unknown Idiot looks like a fucking Pentium lol
Did you know that a mouse today register as a HID (HID USB) that stands for Human interface device.
Yes especially the HIDden mouse xD
Really? Oh no no everyone knows that
Linus feels so bad about trashing Jibo a few months ago that now he's giving them publicity! LOL
José Daniel Pedreira out of the loop.
So care to get us into the loop? Why does he wear their shirt?
José Daniel Pedreira he has made a new video on jibo, take a look!!!
Cant get enough of linus and jibo...its like his sidekick
5:06 I've been using such a mouse for 15 years. I just had to repair the cable twice. Very good design.
Wait...so wheel mice are..optical? WTF?!
Cavey Möth Optical switches, versus optical tracking my good sir!
Rotary encoder.
LINUS IF JIBO HAS TAKEN YOU HOSTAGE PLEASE BLINK TWICE
Gaming mice actually needed to be optical because of games like quake. Quickly flicking a mouse around would actually break the mechanism that the ball was attached to really often
Obviously the impotant advancement in mouse technology is RGB..
*when you put a full 32-arm processor to a mouse...*
_Yo we heard you like computers, so we made a computer out of the thing with which you control your computer!_
Hase lmao
I have a mouse that has a ball with axles and everything you said
Sometimes the screen mouse doesn’t move though
It’s time to talk about this Jibo shirt
RowdyCarnival57 have you not watch other ltt vids he wears it sometimes
The t-shirt looks cool, unlike the Jibo itself lol
a 9 min long techquikie video ?
Y I K E S
calm down the a.d.d. boahhhhhh
Techlongie
No ads either
Hachiman Hikigaya dislike
I love 10+ videos with linus
that is history for you...
3:28
Apple had the Lisa before the Macintosh - the Mac was a VERY cut-down Lisa in it's first model.
And the "deal" to enable the use of Xerox tech etc was the result of Xerox SUING Apple about ripping the GUI and other Xerox technology off to create the Lisa and Macintosh, it DID NOT HAPPEN before those were created.
Those times when the Techquickie videos are longer and more meaningful than the main channel videos.
7:46 you messed with the romba now commes your doomba
random E Stay away from the internet before you make everything worse than it already is.
Lol
Xerox has a facility known as PARC - Palo Alto Research Center. Research is all they do. I don't know about now but back in the day they never applied for patents. One day Steve Jobs went there to visit a friend. He saw not only his first mouse but also a GUI. He went back to his office and put his tech people into duplicating what he had seen. Apple applied for and received patents on both. Then Steve had the gall to sue Microsoft for infringing on their patent with Windows. Such a nice guy. That first Apple with a GUI was called the Lisa. Why? That was the in-house name as a joke because it was the name of Jobs illegitimate daughter. Such a nice guy. It took so long to get the computer to work that the joke name leaked, so Apple felt it beneficial to use the name it was already known by. The Lisa used software-based graphics. That was much, much slower than hardware-based gr5aphics. Also, ram was very expensive back then. While the common price point at that time was around $2,500 the Lisa was over $10k. Needless to say it was not Apple's best seller. Jobs was good at marketing and hired good designers but the other Steve was the tech brain at Apple.
0:16 good ol' windows 7 wallpapers
man they filmed a lot of videos on jibo shirt day
I think this channel should do a collab with LinusTechTips.
Like if you agree!
@Matthew k r/wooosh
Matthew k
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Bam
Slash
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WoOoOoOoOosh
Matthew k r/woosh
@Matthew k r/woooosh
Wooooooosh
Deadpool manboob mouse pad, eehm ok linus.
FOOOKIN LASER MICE
thatcher niggas
R6 popping
I remember the times where we were modding LED mice and replacing the red LED with a blue one. Good old modding community back then was fun :)
This is probably my favorite series you do. Although I love watching you talk to Alexa through realistic textured singing fish.
Anyone who is interested in odd computer hardware, check out Lazy Game Reviews' series called oddware. There is a mouse with a calculator built-in. It seriously has an entire, full scale calculator built in. It's called the Pro hance mouse. Go check it out. It's really good
James Stark I like oddware, but why would you, a random viewer who receives no profit from LGR, advertise it?
6:05 I have one of those Logitech MX1000/MX Laser. Still works. Sadly its not as responsive as it once was.
Got it in a kit with a Keyboard. Sadly don't have the keyboard any more.
But i loved those mice's. I have been using Logitech mouses for 16-18~ years :)
0:57 look at that sweet RGB
Well rgb makes things work better so no wonder they use it in the military, gotta get them frames!
He forgot to mention how laser was a marketing gimmick, and that today's top tier mice use optical sensors again because it's more accurate
pretty sure they still use lasers. its just infrared now is all
When your mouse works on clear glass, and your bugged by scratches,
Linus: a mouse that detects small scratches and dust,
We need more videos likee these
2:13 keep it paused
I owned that mouse shown at 5:11 for almost a decade. It's basic two button sibling of the same era (USB w/ PS2 adapter) still graces my desk at work and I hold onto it for dear life. :D
Glad to see at least a photo of the Intellimouse explorer. But one of the first gaming mousr was the Microsoft Intellimouse 1.1 due to his awesome sensor MLT04, then came the Intellimouse 3.0 with a more ergonomical shape and a 9000fps MLT04. It's sad to see today now mouse producers focus more on DPI rather than the sensor itself and the FPS IMO
You could have at least mentioned the mouse's former name: "X-Y position indicator"
The creator of the mouse has passed. Moment of silence for the pioneer to the tech we have now.
lol that joke at the start
#early squad
I know, it got me good.
Holy cow, after 5 minutes your comment got like 6 likes 👍
Yep.. Mickey!
😂
4:20 Yea I see
6:38 HEY THATS MY MOUSE
do a video on how the "nub style pointing sticks" of thinkpads work. I've always been intrigued.
I too have always been curious about how the Trackpoint works. I've got an old IBM M13 keyboard that has it between the G, H, and B key and love it. I've also got a black one, which I believe is the only model that was released in that color.
I actually licked the pencil eraser more than the early touchpads.
Synergy would have been a better sponsor of this video.
I still don't remember how many balls I have stolen from my school computer lab
(4:04) 1966 Come on Linus really 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦♂️
Powerhouse 1996 haha you triggered cause your name 19996y6 ahahahaddhsheha
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Didn't you see the *1996 flashing in front of your face?
You've got to get some glasses.
Also he isn't going to redo the whole shot just because of one mistake.
was gonna say 1966 were you alive linus LOL
404....... FILE NOT FOUND!
3:27 Stops video to rip on Apple
Putting your sponsor at the end of your video increases your engagement for…sure
I'm never taking my mouse for granted again!
Same
i kind of forgot the video i clicked on and was legit about to learn about the history of florida
I thought Walt Disney actually contributed to the creation of the mouse lol
Which mouse?
KAJ-Time Ahaaaaaaa
Haha
6:23 you are featuring the g402? YO THATS THE MOUSE I USE
cool mouse
@@noobics8015 since then now I got the g502 lightspeed XD
Of course this gets recommended when my mouse breaks and I am looking for a new mouse
The ad has to be in hd but the video in 140p
look, if you don't click on our ad, we'll make you pay for it by taking your data! Mwahahahaha we're so devilishly evil.
My grandparents brought me here.
0:32 I have the same mouse as that. Illuminati confirmed.
I remember always taking the ball out of mice just to throw it at my friends.
Weird flex but okay
😂🔥
Lmao i used to do that in class, but not my friends, my teacher
I can remember when I played Track Mania back in 2003 or 2004 on Dad's PC with a ball mouse... nostalgic
I would always take the ball out and play with it, only to lose it later and never be able to use the mouse again
4:06 when you blurt the incorrect answer with confidence in class
this guy is pretty chill
Tympha Redbread yep
the Micheal Jackson "wheo!"
LOVE IT XD
Linus: "History of the mouse"
Me: Gets Tom & Jerry on TH-cam recommendations
Me: **gets Mickey Mouse on TH-cam recommends**
With that opening I was fully prepared to believe that the first proto-mouse was invented by Disney for Epcot.
Anyone else miss ball mice simply because of the immense satisfaction of picking that big piece of gunk out of it?
I loved the ball itself as well. I always used to keep the ball if a mouse broke.
No just no ik im 12 but JESUS nobody wants to pick nasty gunk out of a mouse
Nobody Jimmy, nobody.