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Meteorological Satelite
On February 17, 1959, the first meteorological satellite, called Vanguard 2, was launched into space. But it was unsuccessful. For this reason, TIROS-1 is considered the first meteorological satellite, this was launched by NASA on April 1, 1960 -
Vostok spacecraft
The first spaceship made by Soviet Union and the first man that travel to the space -
Communications Satelite
Telstar 1 was put into orbit in 1962 and with this the first satelite television transmission -
Audio Compact Cassette
The cassette was introduced in Europe and the United States in 1963 and 1964. The Phillips company released a magnetic tape to record and reproduce sounds -
BASIC
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, are the high-level programming languages, that was made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz because they wanted a easy programming language -
IBM 360
appear the IBM 360 like the third generation of computers -
Bullet Train
the "New Tokaido" line was opened in Japan, linking Tokyo and Osaka. Their trains were the first to exceed 200 km / h. -
Portable video cameras
In 1965, the first portable video cameras appeared, which were manufactured by the Sony company in Japan. These only served to make black and white videos. This camera was called Sony CV-2000 -
Floppy disk or Diskette
In 1967, the first portable diskettes were created, which were used to store information. In a short time they became the most used device to store information, but were sold from 1971 -
Computer Mouse
Douglas Engelbart changed the way computers worked, from specialized machinery that only a trained scientist could use, to a user-friendly tool that almost anyone can use. He invented or contributed to several interactive, user-friendly devices such as the computer mouse. -
RAM
Referered to as random-access memory or RAM, it allowed data to be accessed randomly, not just in the sequence it was recorded. -
The UNIX project
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson was started the project UNIX, The first generic operation system -
ARPAnet
ARPAnet protected the flow of information between military installations by creating a network of geographically separated computers that could exchange information.
