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The First Cassette Tape
The Cassette Tape, or Compact Cassette, was first developed by the Philips company in 1962 in Belgium. Philips released the invention to Europe at the Berlin Radio Show on August 30, 1963; the invention was released in the United States in November of next year. Cassettes allowed portable and accessible music. -
First Supercomputer
The CDC 6600, released in 1964, is sometimes considered the first supercomputer. It wasn't until 1964, when Seymour Cray designed the Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600, that we started to call the fastest-of-the-fast machines "supercomputers." Cray believed there would always be a need for a machine "a hundred times more powerful than anything available today"—a definition that works well to define their specifications. -
The First Computerized Encyclopedia
The first computerized encyclopedia is invented at the Systems Development Corporation. Syntactic sugar was coined by computer scientist Peter Landin in 1964. It provided expertise for the United States military in the design, integration, and testing of large, complex, computer-controlled systems. -
First ATM
On September 2, 1969, America’s first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Centre, New York. ATMs went on to revolutionize the banking industry, eliminating the need to visit a bank to conduct basic financial transactions -
The First Internet Sent Message
According to Kleinrock, they intended to transmit the word “LOGIN,” but the system crashed just after they had sent the first two letters. "Hence, the first message on the Internet was 'LO' — as in 'Lo and behold!',” Kleinrock said. “We didn't plan it, but we couldn't have come up with a better message: short and prophetic.