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Ampex introduced the Quadruplex videotape professional broadcast standard format with its Ampex VRX-1000 in 1956. It became the world's first commercially successful videotape recorder using two-inch wide tape. Due to its US$50,000 price, the Ampex VRX-1000 could be afforded only by the television networks and the largest individual stations.
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The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957. It was visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses detectable.
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The first Computer Chip was patented.
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The first spaceflight in the Vostok program and the first human spaceflight in history.
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The first practical visible-spectrum (red) LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak, Jr.
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Stereo 8 was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear.
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The first laptop (porable computer) was the Dynabook, created by Alan Kay in 1968. Technology evolved and these comuters got more easily portable and got more features. it is now a common feature of modern society.
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The first hand-held cell phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973.
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Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976.
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The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in September 1977 by Atari, Inc.
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In 1985, the NES launched in North America, and was accompanied by Super Mario Bros., one of the best-selling video games of all time.
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802.11 technology has its origins in a 1985 ruling by the US Federal Communications Commission that released the ISM band for unlicensed use.
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The first cellular phone to incorporate PDA features was an IBM prototype developed in 1992 and demonstrated that year at the COMDEX computer industry trade show.
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On 7 July 1994, the Fraunhofer Society released the first software MP3 encoder called l3enc.
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On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com
