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touch-Tone Telephone introduced
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The 1st working laser was demonstrated in May by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories.
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COBOL, a high level business application language, is developed by a committee headed by Dr. Grace Hopper.
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1st trans-Atlantic satellite broadcast via the Telstar satellite.
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The 1st video game, Spacewar!, was invented
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1st trans- Pacific satellite broadcast via the Relay 1 satellite.
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The 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom2 is launched.
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Sketchpad was the 1st touch interactive computer graphics program.
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Video recorder The Nottingham Electronic Valve company produced the 1st home video recorder called the Telcan.
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The 1st successful Minicomputer, Digital Equipment Corporation’s 12-bit PDP-8, was marketed.
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Douglas Engelbart had invented the computer mouse in 1964.
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3rd generation computers, with their controlling circuitry stored on chips, are introduced.
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The IBM System/360 computer is the 1st family of compatible machines, merging science and business lines.
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The programming language BASIC was created by Dr. John Kemeny. He was the leader of the developement.
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Ralph Baer had come up with the idea of video games in1966. He had played the 1st two-player game, which he lost, in 1967.
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PAL and SECAM broadcast color television systems started publicly transmitting in Europe.
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The 1st Automatic Teller Machine was opened in Barclays Bank, London.
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Arpanet, (Advanced Reaserch Project Agency Network) the research-oriented prototype of the internet, was introduced. It is considerred to be the predecessor of the internet.
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CCD invented at AT&T Bell Labs, used as the electronic imager in still and video cameras.
