1960s Tech

  • LEDs (light-emitting diodes)

    LEDs (light-emitting diodes)

    Nick Holonyak Jr., an American engineer at General Electric, invented the first visible light-emitting diode (LED). LEDs are used today both in computer monitors as well as indicator lights.
  • Computer Mouse

    Computer Mouse

    Invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963 to enhance the way humans interacted with computers.
  • BASIC

    BASIC

    Computer programming language, "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." Originally designed as an interactive mainframe timesharing language by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz in 1963
  • DRAM (dynamic random access memory)

    DRAM (dynamic random access memory)

    Robert Heath Dennard invented a one-transistor dynamic random access memory, or "DRAM."
  • ARPANET

    ARPANET

    Established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense to enable resource sharing between remote computers (similar to the internet today)

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