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Bell Telephone introduces the push button telephone November 18, 1963
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AT&T introduces the Picturephone ($160/month for each fixed end-point).
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The first video game console called the Magnavox Odyssey is demonstrated May 24, 1972 and later released by Magnavox and sold for $100.00 USD. The compact disc is invented. Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video game on November 29, 1972. Giant screen projection TV is first marketed.
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Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple, the Apple I computer in 1976, later Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-found Apple Computers on April Fool’s day. Sony introduces Betamax, the first home video cassette recorder.
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Microsoft releases Windows 1.0 in is initially sold for $100. CD-ROMs are released with the ability to store 270,000 papers of text on a single disk. The first Internet domain name symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company on March 15, 1985
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Apple released the iPod, which became the most popular MP3 player in history leading to a disruptive and sweeping change in the music industry.
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Artificial Intelligence: AI has continued to advance rapidly, with major breakthroughs in natural language processing, computer vision, and autonomous systems.