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1961
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1961
Wiley buys Interscience Publishers
Cisneros Venevision tv network
founded
black box flight recorder invented
first electronic game - Spacewars - from MIT
US boxing match test shows potential of pay-TV
FCC approves FM stereo broadcasting
Kleinrock's Information Flow in Large Communications
Nets packet switching paper
Washington Post buys Newsweek
magazine
Studio Vista founded
IBM introduces "golf ball" typewriter
time-sharing computer developed
Haloid Xerox becomes Xerox Corporation
1962
MEDLARS online bibliographical database
minicomputer
Ross Perot founds EDS
Telstar satellite transmits TV image across Atlantic
first Visa credit card
McLuhan's
The Gutenberg Galaxy
Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Carson's Silent Spring
1963
audio tape cassette
Colin Valdar launches UK Press Gazette
Beytouts buy Les Echos group
from Servan-Schreibers
Zip codes started in US
Minsky's Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence
CBS and NBC TV newscasts expand to 30 minutes in colour
Polaroid instant colour photographys
communications satellite is placed in geo-synchronous
orbit
est. 80.97m phones in US; world total est 159m
1964
Dr Strangelove
Murdoch starts The Australian
Baran's On Distributed Communications Networks
paper
Moore's Law about processing power
IBM markets system 360 computer
Olympic Games in Tokyo telecast live globally by satellite
Touch Tone telephones and Picturephone service
Charles King founds King World as syndicator of radio
programs
first domestic videotape recorder
Intelsat established
Oz censorship trial in Australia
IDC founded
Data Corporation (becomes Lexis Corporation) established
1965
Quebecor founded
cigarette ads banned on UK television
Simon predicts by 1985 "machines will be capable of doing
any work a man can do"
Intelsat I (Early Bird satellite)
Ted Nelson coins the term 'hypertext'
establishment of South African Associated Newspapers (SAAN)
McLuhan's Understanding Media
Amaury acquires L'Equipe
Kodak's Super 8 film for home movies
cartridge audio tapes
1966
Bertelsmann takes 25% stake in Gruner & Jahr
Xerox markets Telecopier, first US fax machine
JCDecaux founded
first direct TV pictures from Moon
Dolby eliminates audio hiss
first exchange via satellite of tv signals between Australia
and UK
1967
Sony introduces Trinitron colour tv
light
pen for computers
prerecorded movies on videotape sold for home use
cordless telephones
est. 200m telephones in world - half in US
Marshall Cavendish founded
US Public Broadcasting Act
1968
Pearson buys Longman publishing
Thames TV founded, later acquired by Pearson
Time buys Little Brown
Intel founded
Ashton Scholastic establishes Australian subsidiary
eight inch floppy diskette
200 million TV sets in the world - 78 million in US
RAM chip reaches market
Watson's The Double Helix
ARPANet contract given to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN)
Paul Desmarais gains control of Power
Corporation of Canada
1969
Bonnier buys 49% stake in A/S
Forlaget Børsen
Comcast formed
Chatto & Windus merges with Jonathan Cape
Dialog online database launched by Lockheed
first ARPANet node installed at UCLA Network Measurement
Center
astronauts send live video from moon
Sony's U-Matic puts videotape on a cassette
Seiko produces first quartz wristwatch
est. 97% of US households have tv
US government lawsuit claims IBM guilty of "illegal
monopolisation of computing industry"
Honeywell releases H316 'Kitchen Computer'
Xerox takes control of minicomputer group Scientific Data
Systems (SDS)
Murdoch buys News of the World
1970
prototype videodisk
The Female Eunuch
first ATM and Jumbo Jet service
US 'Talk Radio' begins in Boston with telephone calls
to fill dead spots
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