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Built by Bell Labs.
First commercial satellite to relay phone calls and television images. -
Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
BASIC stands for "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." First used successfully to run programs on a GE computer at Dartmouth College. -
Invented by Jerry Merryman at Texas Instruments.
The first handheld calculator could add, multiply, subtract and divide and included a thermal printer and rechargeable battery. -
Invented by Ralph Baer.
The first multi-player, multi-program video game console was called the Brown Box. -
Invented by Bob Taylor building on the ideas of J. C. R. Licklider.
ARPANET, or Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was the first network to enable access to computers remotely. This is the precursor to the Internet.