CNET: 15 ways to embrace your classic gaming nostalgia. Together, all of those technologies have, in combination, informed the world we're in today. That makes a tough choice. I'd award the year to the Alto, because it demonstrated the graphical UI we all know so well. But what about cell phones? TCP, Ethernet, and fiber optics are what make the Internet possible, and without the Internet, where would we be?
If I were writing this ten years ago, my answer would be different. But today, the mobile smartphone is the dominant technology, bar none. And it all started in Although barcodes were patented back in , the same year that Alan Turing defined his Turing test , commercial use didn't take place until That's because laser technology necessary to do the barcode scanning didn't exist until the s. The big day was June 26, It was about 8am on a drizzly, foggy Wednesday in Troy, Ohio when Marsh supermarket cashier Sharon Buchanan took a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum from Clyde Dawson and ran it through her newly installed barcode scanner.
For the first time anywhere, a barcode had been scanned to determine a product price, and retailing and supply chains the world over would never be the same. Runners up: The Mark-8 microcomputer kit and the Rubik's Cube. In some ways, the Altair was just another kit offered to geeky hobbyists. But it changed the world. The Altair was promoted on the cover of Popular Electronics and became the first commercially successful microprocessor-based computer.
Read: From paper tape to a patched-together Altair , the story of my first computer. If that were all, though, we might give the award to Betamax. After all, home video is a big business today. But the Altair didn't just usher in the personal computer business, it gave birth to Microsoft. The system transmitted "l" and then "o" and then crashed. This event marks both the first message sent over the Internet, and the first server crash.
The Computer Terminal Corporation began shipping the DataPoint which was the first computer terminal meant to replace the teleprinter. The first artificial heart was placed into Haskell Carp on April 4, , for 64 hours until a donor's heart became available.
At UTC on July 21, , the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon, and Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. Ralph Baer filed for a US patent on August 21, , that describes playing games on a television and would later be a part of the Magnavox Odyssey. Join the ZME newsletter for amazing science news, features, and exclusive scoops.
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With this in mind, one can only awe at the kind of computer power each of us holds at their finger tips. Nevermind we use them for frivolous matters. Tibi is a science journalist and co-founder of ZME Science. The mission of the two Mariner probes was to study the atmosphere and surface of Mars by conducting close flybys.
Mariner 6 was primarily used to gather data relevant to programming the Mariner 7 follow-up mission. Both probes were successful in gathering the intended information which was used by NASA to plan future missions to Mars. In October, the second point was installed at a computer in the Stanford Research Institute. The first communication between the two is sent and received across the new network on October 29th,.
The U. The investigations began in when government officials started to collect information related to UFO sightings. Between and , there were over 12, reports compiled by officials and of those reports all but cases were identified as either an atmospheric, astronomical, or man-made event.
The project concluded that UFOs did not threaten national security and did not present evidence of extraterrestrial life or technology and the US government decided that it would be far to costly to continue to investigate UFO sightings. The Montreal Expos baseball team makes its debut during April. They won their first game against the New York Mets but struggled to do well the rest of the season. They were a part of the National League and their first manager was Gene Mauch.
In the team moved to Washington D. The Echo 2 satellite mission ends during June. Echo 2 was a foot satellite that was launched by NASA in January of and it orbited the Earth in a near polar orbit for the duration of its time in space. It was used to perform some passive communications experiments and to measure the shape of the Earth.
Venera 5 made it to Venus on the 16th of May in and Venera 6 arrived the next day. The missions were partially successful in that both vehicles were able to transmit measurements for about 50 minutes each but ultimately failed in that their instruments were then presumably damaged by the surface pressure and heat that they encountered on their descents.
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