1951-1975

1951 1.5 million television sets in US

1951 Cinerama

1951 Wang Laboratories

1951 still cameras get built-in flash units

1951 coaxial cable reaches coast to coast in the US

1951 Australian Financial Review

1952 Bing Crosby's company tests video recording

1952 Nixdorf Computer founded

1952 US government sues IBM for monopolizing punched-card machine industry

1952 Sony produces first transistor radios

1952 Univac projects the winner of the presidential election on CBS

1952 Zenith proposes pay-TV system using punched cards

1953 first issue of TV Guide

1953 Fairfax grabs Associated Newspapers

1954 Village Roadshow media group founded

1954 FORTRAN created by John Backus

1954 USSR launches Sputnik

1954 regular colour TV broadcasts begin in the US

1954 TV revenue exceeds radio revenues in US for first time

     1955

1955 NBC president David Sarnoff says "Television will never be a medium of entertainment"

1955 Disneyland opened

1955 Remington-Rand & Sperry Gyroscope merge as Sperry-Rand

1955 rebranding sees start of Marlboro Man campaign

1955 first fluoride toothpaste, Crest

1955 music recorded on tape in stereo

1956 television broadcasting in Australia

1956 first transatlantic telephone cable

1956 television in 71% of US households

1956 first hard disk drive at IBM

1956 Australia's SILLIAC and UTECOM computers go live

1956 Ampex builds practical videotape recorder

1956 Bell Labs tests picture phone

1956 first transatlantic telephone calls by cable

1956 term 'artificial intelligence' devised

1957 Control Data Corporation formed

1957 Soviet Union's Sputnik sends signals from space

1957 first Japanese car sold in US

1957 FORTRAN becomes first high-level computer language

1957 Sony TR63 is first pocket transistor radio

1957 surgical operation is televised

1957 Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders

1957 Chomsky's Syntactic Structures

1957 first book to be entirely phototypeset is offset printed

1958 US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency founded

1958 Minsky founds AI Lab at MIT

1958 Warner Bros records formed

1958 UNIMATE is first industrial robot

1958 colour videotape recording

1958 laser invented at Bell Labs

1958 integrated circuit

1958 cable carries FM radio stations

1958 Galbraith's The Affluent Society

1958 Bank of America launches first US credit card

1958 AT&T markets first modems

1959 local ads go on cable TV in the US

1959 Xerox's first automatic paper copier

1959 "A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play"

1959 French SECAM and German PAL television systems

1959 first packaged program sold by Computer Science Corporation

     1960

1960 computer industry has first billion dollar year

1960 6 000 computers in operation in US.

1960 Echo I, US balloon in orbit, reflects radio signals to Earth

1960 Zenith tests subscription TV in the US

1960 Murdoch buys Sydney Daily Mirror

1961 black box flight recorder invented

1961 first electronic game - Spacewars - from MIT

1961 US boxing match test shows potential of pay-TV

1961 FCC approves FM stereo broadcasting

1961 Kleinrock's Information Flow in Large Communications Nets packet switching paper

1961 IBM introduces "golf ball" typewriter

1961 time-sharing computer developed

1962 MEDLARS online bibliographical database

1962 minicomputer

1962 Ross Perot founds EDS

1962 Telstar satellite transmits TV image across Atlantic

1962 first Visa credit card

1962 McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy

1962 Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1962 Carson's Silent Spring

1963 audio tape cassette

1963 Zip codes started in US

1964 Dr Strangelove

1964 Murdoch starts The Australian

1964 Baran's On Distributed Communications Networks paper

1963 Minsky's Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence

1963 CBS and NBC TV newscasts expand to 30 minutes in colour

1963 Polaroid instant colour photographys

1963 communications satellite is placed in geo-synchronous orbit

1963 est 80.97 million phones in US; world total est 159.2 million

1964 Moore's Law about processing power

1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo telecast live globally by satellite

1964 Touch Tone telephones and Picturephone service

1964 first domestic videotape recorder

1964 Intelsat established

1964 Oz censorship trial in Australia

     1965

1965 cigarette ads banned on UK television

1965 Simon predicts by 1985 "machines will be capable of doing any work a man can do"

1965 Intelsat I (Early Bird satellite)

1965 Ted Nelson coins the term 'hypertext'

1965 McLuhan's Understanding Media

1965 Kodak offers Super 8 film for home movies

1965 cartridge audio tapes

1966 Xerox sells the Telecopier, first US fax machine

1966 first direct TV pictures from the moon

1967 Dolby eliminates audio hiss

1966 first exchange via satellite of television signals between Australia and UK

1967 Sony introduces Trinitron colour TV

1967 light pen for computers

1967 prerecorded movies on videotape sold for home use

1967 cordless telephones

1967 200 million telephones in the world - half are in US

1968 Pearson buys Longman publishing

1968 Time buys Little Brown

1968 Intel founded

1968 eight inch floppy diskette

1968 200 million TV sets in the world - 78 million in US

1968 RAM chip reaches market

1968 Watson's The Double Helix

1968 ARPANet contract given to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN)

1969 Dialog online database launched by Lockheed

1969 first ARPANet node installed at UCLA Network Measurement Center

1969 astronauts send live video from moon

1969 Sony's U-Matic puts videotape on a cassette

1969 Seiko produces first quartz wristwatch

1969 television in 97% of US households

1969 US government lawsuit claims IBM guilty of "illegal monopolisation of computing industry"

1969 Honeywell releases H316 'Kitchen Computer'

1969 Murdoch buys News of the World

     1970

1970 prototype videodisk

1970 The Female Eunuch

1970 first ATM and Jumbo Jet service

1971 Pearson buys Penguin Books

1971 Intel builds the microprocessor, "a computer on a chip"

1971 Wang 1200 is world's first word processor

1972 E-mail invented by BBN's Ray Tomlinson

1972 first desktop electronic calculator by Hewlett-Packard

1972 first CAT scan

1972 Time's HBO starts first cable pay-TV service in US

1972 5UV in Adelaide is Australia's first community radio broadcaster

1972 BBC offers "Ceefax," two-way cable information system

1972 Landsat I, 'eye-in-the-sky' satellite, launched

1972 first handheld calculator, from Texas Instruments

1972 Sony's Portapak, a portable video recorder

1972 first electronic video game for TV as an add-on, "Pong"

1973 first non-US connections to ARPANET

1973 Hasegawa & Tappert propose use of optical fibre

1973 Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society

1974 first products with barcodes

1974 Philips markets first domestic video cassette recorder

1974 A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection by Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn details the design of TCP

1974 paper by Vint Cerf introduces term "internet"

1974 Berlusconi media group founded

     1975

1975 Microsoft founded

1975 first handheld mobilephone

1975 first major ISP - CompuServe

1975 Asper establishes first station of CanWest Global group

1975 Xerox withdraws from computer industry




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