1960 to 1970 Timeline Outline

The First Journal on Computing Changes its Name
(1960)

Pioneering Computer-Assisted Legal Research
(1960)

ARPA Increases Funding for Research on Computing
(1960)

The First Commercially Available General Purpose Computer with Transistor Logic
(1960)

The Monotype Monomatic Hot Type Machine
(1960)

6000 Computers in U.S., Out of 10,000 Worldwide
(1960)

The First Self-Contained Internally Powered Artificial Pacemaker Implanted in a Human
(1960)

LISP
(1960)

The First Electronic Learning System
(1960)

The First Software Patent
(1960 – November 20, 1968)

Invention of the First Working Laser
(1960)

Man-Computer Symbiosis
(March 1960)

The First Published Report on COBOL
(April 1960)

Bionics
(September 13 – September 15, 1960)

Technical Basis for the Development of Phreaking
(November 1960)

One of the Earliest Computer Text Editors
(December 1960)

COBOL Allows Compatibility Between Computers Made by Different Manufacturers
(December 6 – December 7, 1960)

"Dial F for Frankenstein"
(1961)

Computerized Stock-Quotation System
(1961)

The Genetic Code
(1961)

The First Computer-Animated Film
(1961)

Over 7000 People Belong to the ACM
(1961)

Special-Purpose Typesetting Computer
(1961)

Precursor of Word Processing and Email
(1961)

Coining the Term "Computer Science"
(1961)

The First Word Processing Program
(1961 – 1962)

The First Human to Travel into Space and the First to Orbit the Earth
(April 12, 1961)

The Linc, Perhaps the First Mini-Computer
(May 1961 – 1962)

First Paper on Data Networking Theory
(May 31, 1961)

The First Integrated Circuit Computer
(October 19, 1961)

Origins of the IBM System/360
(December 28, 1961)

Spacewar, the First Computer Game for a Commercially Available Computer
(1962)

"Silent Spring"
(1962)

The Gutenberg Galaxy
(1962)

Computers Drive Linotype Hot Metal Typesetters
(1962)

One of the First Data Publishing and Retrieval Systems
(1962)

The First Visible LED
(1962)

The Largest Archive of Digital Social Science Data
(1962)

The Information Economy
(1962)

The First Digitally Multiplexed Transmission of Voice Signals
(1962)

Packet Switching
(April 1962)

"Online Man-Computer Communication"
(Circa June 1962)

The First Satellite to Relay Signals from Earth to Satellite and Back
(June 10, 1962)

First of the "Ten Greatest Software Bugs of All Time"
(July 28, 1962)

Augmenting Human Intellect
(October 1962)

Licklider at the Information Processing Techniques Office, Begins Funding Research that Leads to the ARPANET
(October 1, 1962)

The First CAD Program
(December 1962)

ASCII is Promulgated
(1963)

The First Commercially Produced Mini-Computer
(1963)

Changes in Tissue Density Can be Computed
(1963 – 1964)

The First Graphical User Interface
(1963)

The First General Typesetting Computers
(1963)

Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin' "
(1963)

Foundation of Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center
(1963)

"A Computer Technique for the Production of Animated Movies"
(1963 – 1964)

The "Intergalactic Computer Network"
(April 25, 1963)

Machine Perception of Three Dimensional Solids
(May 1963 – 1965)

The Printing and the Mind of Man Exhibition
(July 16 – July 27, 1963)

The First Geosynchronous Communications Satellite is Launched
(July 26, 1963)

Probably the First Book Typeset by Computer
(October 6, 1963)

Touch-Tone Dialing is Introduced
(November 1963)

First Use of the Term "Hacker" in the Context of Computing
(November 20, 1963)

Mathematical Theory of Data Communications
(1964)

On Distributed Communications
(1964)

The First Commercial Computers to Use Integrated Circuits
(1964)

The First Online Reservation System
(1964)

Social Security Numbers as Identifiers
(1964)

BASIC
(1964)

The First Computerized Encyclopedia
(1964)

Science Citation Index
(1964)

The Beginning of "Word Processing"
(1964)

The First Plasma Video Display (Neon Orange)
(1964)

Origins of Automated Facial Recognition
(1964 – 1966)

"The Medium is the Message"
(1964)

"Information Overload" Coined
(1964)

The First Large Scale Computer-Based Retrospective Search Service Available to the General Public
(January 1964)

Smoking and Health
(January 11, 1964)

The ENIAC Patent
(February 4, 1964)

First Consumer Product with an Integrated Circuit
(February 14, 1964)

The Beginning of Algorithmic Information Theory
(March – June 1964)

The IBM System/360 Family
(April 7, 1964)

720 Million Copies Printed and Distributed in Under Four Years
(May 1964)

One of the Earliest Tablet Computers and the First Reference to Electronic Ink
(August 1964)

The First Geostationary Communication Satellite
(August 19, 1964)

The Moog Synthesizer
(October 1964)

A Meeting Between Licklider and Lawrence G. Roberts Leads to the Original Planning for What Would Eventually Become ARPANET
(November 1964)

TYPESET and RUNOFF: Text Formatting Program and Forerunner of Word Processors
(November 6, 1964)

The First Production Model Minicomputer
(1965)

The First Book on Computer Graphics
(1965)

"Libraries of the Future"
(1965)

Early Home Computer?
(1965)

Email Begins
(1965)

Invasion of Privacy by Computers
(1965)

Coining the Terms Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Hyperlink
(1965)

The U.S. Postal Services Introduces OCR
(1965)

Optical Fibers Proposed as a Medium for Communication
(1965)

Programming Language for Education and Games
(1965 – 1969)

The MARC Cataloguing Standard
(1965 – 1968)

Origin of the Concept of Technological Singularity
(1965)

The Management of Archives
(1965)

The Resolution Principle
(January 1965)

The Earliest Public Exhibitions of Computer Art
(February 5 – November 26, 1965)

The Cooley-Tukey FFT Algorithm
(April 1965)

Memory Caching
(April 1965)

The First Commercial Communications Satellite to be Placed in Geosynchronous Orbit
(April 6, 1965)

Moore's Law
(April 19, 1965)

The First Magazine Cover Designed Using Computer Graphics
(July 1965)

The First "Actual Network Experiment"
(October 1965)

NY Stock Exchanges Completes Automation of Trading
(1966)

Semi-Conductor Memory
(1966)

Computerizing Income-Tax Processing
(1966)

The Invention of DRAM
(1966)

The Invention of Digital Image Processing
(1966)

Possibly the First Personal Computer Club
(1966)

A Computer-Assisted Full-Text Inventory System
(1966)

Lockheed's DIALOG
(1966)

Abolishing the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
(1966)

First System for Interactive Display of Molecular Structures
(1966)

The Smallest Published Edition of the Bible, and the First to Reach the Moon
(1966)

The Word Multimedia Coined
(July 1966)

Describing Networking Research at MIT
(October 1966)

Roberts Begins the Design of the ARPANET
(December 1966)

Bertin's Semiology of Graphics
(1967 – 1983)

An Experiment in Packet Switching
(1967)

Full-Text Interactive Search Service
(1967)

The First Hypertext Editing System
(1967)

The First Hand-Held Electronic Calculator
(1967 – June 25, 1974)

The Museum Computer Network
(1967)

The Theory of "Island" Biogeography
(1967)

The Viterbi Algorithm
(1967)

"Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English"
(1967)

The First Anthology of Research on Humanities Computing
(1967)

35,000 Computers Were Operating in the United States
(1967)

The Beginning of Automated Essay Scoring
(1967)

Computer Privacy
(March 1967)

Interface Message Processors
(April 1967)

Protecting Security in a Networked Environment
(Circa May – September 1967)

The "Coons Patch"
(June 1967)

The First Live, International Satellite Television Production
(June 25, 1967)

Invention of the Computer Mouse
(June 27, 1967)

OCLC is Founded
(July 5, 1967)

Introduction of the Term "Packet"
(October 1967)

The First Paper on the Design of the ARPANET
(October 1967)

Mead Corporation Purchases Data Corporation
(1968)

First Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display System
(1968)

Commercializing the Use of Computers as Simulators
(1968)

The First Marketed, Mass-Produced Programmable Calculator, or Personal Computer
(1968)

Probably the Largest Printed Bibliography, Complete in 754 Folio Volumes
(1968 – 1981)

"2001: A Space Odyssey"
(1968)

Replicants
(1968)

Unbundling Gives Rise to the Software and Services Industry
(1968)

The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age
(1968)

Invention of the "Smart Card"
(1968 – 1984)

The Rainbow Hologram or Benton Hologram
(1968)

Invention of Three-Dimensional Image Processing
(January 1968)

Features of the Future ARPANET
(April 1968)

The First U.S. Conference on Museum Computing
(April 1968)

Foundation of Intel
(July 18, 1968)

The First Widely-Attended International Exhibition of Computer Art
(August 2 – October 20, 1968)

Software Engineering
(October 7 – October 11, 1968)

The First Monograph by a Computer Artist
(December 1968)

Hypertext, Text Editing, Windows, Email and a Mouse
(December 8, 1968)

The First Manned Apollo Flights Occur
(December 24, 1968)

The First ATM
(Circa 1969 – 1970)

UNIX is Developed, Making Open Systems Possible
(1969)

32,393 New Books Are Published in the U.K.
(1969)

The First Commercial Online Service
(1969)

A Sensor for Recording Images
(1969)

Generalized Markup Language is Introduced
(Circa 1969)

The First Book on Digital Physics
(1969)

First First Digital Sampler in the First Digital Music Studio
(Circa 1969)

The First Dictionary Based on Corpus Linguistics
(1969)

The First Book on Computer Music to Include Recordings of Compositions
(1969)

The Laserdisc
(1969 – December 15, 1978)

The Datapoint 2200: Precursor of the Personal Computer and the Microprocessor
(1969 – 1971)

Peer to Peer Architecture
(April 7, 1969)

AMD
(May 1, 1969)

Problem with the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Nearly Prevents the First Moon Walk
(July 21, 1969)

The First ARPANET Node
(August 30, 1969)

The First Message Sent Over the ARPANET
(October 29, 1969)

The First Four Nodes on the ARPANET
(December 5, 1969)