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On February 17, 1959, the first meteorological satellite, called Vanguard 2, was launched into space. But it was unsuccessful. For this reason, TIROS-1 is considered the first meteorological satellite, this was launched by NASA on April 1, 1960
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The first spaceship made by Soviet Union and the first man that travel to the space
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Telstar 1 was put into orbit in 1962 and with this the first satelite television transmission
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The cassette was introduced in Europe and the United States in 1963 and 1964. The Phillips company released a magnetic tape to record and reproduce sounds
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Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, are the high-level programming languages, that was made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz because they wanted a easy programming language
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appear the IBM 360 like the third generation of computers
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the "New Tokaido" line was opened in Japan, linking Tokyo and Osaka. Their trains were the first to exceed 200 km / h.
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In 1965, the first portable video cameras appeared, which were manufactured by the Sony company in Japan. These only served to make black and white videos. This camera was called Sony CV-2000
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In 1967, the first portable diskettes were created, which were used to store information. In a short time they became the most used device to store information, but were sold from 1971
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Douglas Engelbart changed the way computers worked, from specialized machinery that only a trained scientist could use, to a user-friendly tool that almost anyone can use. He invented or contributed to several interactive, user-friendly devices such as the computer mouse.
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Referered to as random-access memory or RAM, it allowed data to be accessed randomly, not just in the sequence it was recorded.
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Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson was started the project UNIX, The first generic operation system
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ARPAnet protected the flow of information between military installations by creating a network of geographically separated computers that could exchange information.
