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1971
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1971
Pearson
buys Penguin Books
200 Motels by Frank Zappa is first feature film shot
entirely on colour videotape and transferred to film
Intel builds the microprocessor, "a computer on a chip"
Wang 1200 is world's first word processor
first complete synthesis of a gene
1972
email invented by BBN's Ray Tomlinson
Salem Communications founded
first desktop electronic calculator by Hewlett-Packard
first CAT scan
Time's HBO starts first cable pay-TV service in US
5UV in Adelaide is Australia's first community radio broadcaster
BBC offers Ceefax two-way cable information system
Landsat I, 'eye-in-the-sky' satellite, launched
first handheld calculator, from Texas Instruments
Sony's Portapak, a portable video recorder
Pong is first electronic video game for TV as an
add-on
Seymour Cray establishes own supercomputer company
Polygram founded by Siemens and
Philips to replace GPG joint venture
Sing Tao Holdings goes public
1973
Dolan establishes Cablevision
Virago publishing house founded
first non-US connections to ARPANET
Hasegawa & Tappert propose use of optical fibre
Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
Ted Mann buys National General Theatre chain
US record sales reach US$2bn pa
JP Sartre & Serge July found Libération
1974
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
first products with barcodes
Gilbert Harrison sells New Republic to Martin Peretz
for US$380,000
Philips markets first domestic video cassette recorder
Cerf & Kahn's A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection
details design of TCP
paper by Vint Cerf introduces term "internet"
Berlusconi media group founded
Lenfest Communications formed
Dorling Kindersley founded
1975
Microsoft
founded
first handheld mobile phone
Gulf+Western buys Simon & Schuster
first major ISP - CompuServe
Asper establishes first station of
CanWest Global group
Xerox sells SDS to Honeywell, withdraws from computer industry
Silvio Berlusconi establishes
Fininvest
1976
Murdoch buys London Times,
Sunday Times and New York Post
launch of la Repubblica
first Apple
computer
prepaid phone cards introduced in Italy
Kurzweil Reading Machine
Diffie & Hellman's New Directions in Cryptography
describes public key cryptography
Australia's Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
founded
Australian Broadcasting Control Board becomes the Australian
Broadcasting Tribunal
Ethernet described
Ted Turner delivers programming across US by satellite
Cray-1, first supercomputer
first Concorde flight
cable television in 15% of US households
1977
Beaverbrook Newspapers sold
to Trafalgar House
Rivest, Shamir & Adleman publish RSA algorithm
Star Wars
QUBE interactive cable tv trial in Ohio
Kaiser sells its majority interest
in US tv stations to Field Communications
Apple II PC offers colour and floppy disk instead of cassette
tapes
Astors sell ailing Observer
to US oil giant Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) for US$1
1978
Berlusconi founds 'virtual' national tv network
Bulletin Board software
Scholastic Australia buys Oldmeadow Booksellers (inc Dromkeen)
point-&-shoot camera
1979
3Com founded
Lonrho buys Scottish & Universal Investments (SUITS) inc
George Outram (Glasgow Herald and Evening Times)
and Scottish & Universal Newspapers (SUN), Scotland's
largest group of paid and free newspapers
George Atkinson's Video Station is first video rental store
in US
Eisenstein's The Printing Press As An Agent Of Change
1980
number of computers in US exceeds one million
Microsoft DOS version 1.0
Berners-Lee writes "Enquire Within" program
Intelpost international electronic fax service
CNN 24-hour news channel
Wordstar is first PC word processor
Radio One founded by Catherine
Hughes
Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet
first compact discs
Fritz Machlup's
Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution & Economic Significance
Chandler's Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American
Business
OECD Information Privacy Principles (IPP)
laptop computer
Advance buys Random House group
from RCA
US Supreme Court upholds right to patent living organism (Diamond
v Chakrabarty)
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