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Fiber Optics
The 1970s were also the start of fiber optics. In 1970 Corning Glass announced that it had created a glass fiber so clear that it could be used
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Intel 4004
The birth of modern computing was in the 1970s.
The world's first general microprocessor, the Intel 4004, came out in November 1971. -
C Programming Language
The C programming language was developed early in the decade and the Unix operating system was rewritten into it in 1973. -
Cray-1 Super Computer
In 1976, Cray Research, Inc. introduced the first supercomputer, the Cray-1, which could perform 230,000,000 calculations per second. -
Computerized Bulletin Board System
The first BBS, called the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS), was created in 1978 by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess.