Welcome to the 60's

By sarahtrott

  • Telstar 1

    Telstar 1
    Various communications satellites, called Telstar, were launched on July 10, 1962. Telstar 1 was built by a team at Bell Telephone Laboratories. This team included John Robinson Pierce, creator, Rudy Kompfner, wave tube transponder inventor, and James M. Early, solar panels and transistor designer. Telstar 1 brought about the first television and telegraph pictures/images, telephone calls, and produced the first live transatlantic television feed, all relayed through space.

  • Sketchpad

    Sketchpad
    Sketchpad was a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963. It paved the way for human-computer interaction (HCI) and was a major contributor in the evolution of computer graphics as a whole, as graphical user interface (GUI) evolved from Sketchpad.

  • Computer Mouse

    Computer Mouse
    The first Mouse prototype was developed in 1964 by Douglas Engelbert and Bill English. It got its name by its resemblance to an actual mouse, due to the cord extending out the back. Other pointing devices were tested using different body movements, such as a head mounted device, but the ease of use and speed capability, made the hand operated Mouse a better option. The first public demonstration of the Mouse with a computer was on December 9 1968.

  • oN-Line System

    Also known as NLS, was developed by Douglas Engelbart. Implementation of NLS was a monumental multi-user system. It was the first to put into use the combination of the mouse, computer monitor and a number of programs such as hypertext links, multiple windows, computer-aided meetings and shared screen teleconferencing.

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)

    Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
    The ARPANET was the network visioned from J. C. R. Licklider. His ideas were extremely influential in its development and he guided Bob Taylor, Ivan Sutherland and the ARPA team until the first computers were connected in 1969. The ARPANET was the first network to digitally transmit data and employ the use of the TCP/IP protocol suite, which later becomes the technical building blocks for the Internet. The ARPANET was designed to be communication friendly as opposed to user friendly.