Mattingly "AI & Prompt Design: The Basics of Prompt Design"
communication technolog from 1970 to 1980
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2. FIRSTEMAILSENT
(1971)
The first e-mail is sent.
RayTomlinson of the research
firm Bolt, Beranek and
Newman sent the first e-mail
when he was supposed to be
working on different project.
Tomlinson, who is
credited with being the one to
decide on the ‘@’ sign for use
in email, sent his message
over a military network called
ARPANET.
3. Firstmodernvideogame
(1972)
Pong is released.
Nolan Bushnell hired young
engineer Al Alcorn to design a
car driving game, but when it
became apparent that this was
too ambitious for the time he
had Alcorn to design a version
of ping-pong instead.
The game was tested in
bars in GrassValley and
Sunnyvale, California where it
proved very popular. Pong
would revolutionize the arcade
industry and launch the modern
video game era.
4. Telephones
By 1973, almost three-quarters of Australian
families had a home telephone.Telephone
technology was constantly improving. In
the late 1970s, the rotary dial telephone
was replaced with a keypad model, called
theTouchfone 10, making dialling even
quicker.
STD (subscriber trunk dialling) was joined
by international subscriber dialling (ISD) in
1976. ISD took Australians one step closer
to the rest of the world, enabling callers to
dial directly overseas, rather than having to
call an operator to connect them. Initially
available to Sydney residents, ISD had
spread across Australia by the end of the
decade.
5. Radio
FM radio began broadcasting in Sydney in
1974. FM radio employs technology that provides a
much higher quality, less distorted sound than AM
broadcast.
FM radio also created space on the airwaves
for a greater variety of commercial stations, as well
as small niche stations. In 1975 the government
funded the development of several multicultural
radio stations.Two of these stations, 2EA in
Sydney and 3EA in Melbourne, were eventually
combined to form the Special Broadcasting Service
(SBS).
6. Microsoftareborn
(1975)
In 1975, Bill Gates and
Paul Allen from a
partnership called Microsoft.
Like most start-ups,
Microsoft begins small, but
has a massive vision – a
computer on every desktop
and in every home.
During the coming years,
Microsoft begins to change
the ways we work.
Microsoft is now one of
the biggest companies in the
world.
7. Betamaxvideostandard
(1975)
Betamax was a analogue
videocassette which allowed the
recording and playback of video.
Betamax was developed by Sony
and released in japan on May 10th
1975.
The name ‘BETA’ comes
from the fact that when the tape
ran through the transport, it
looked like this Greek letter beta
(β). ‘Max’ was to suggest that the
videocassette performed at
maximum capability.
8. Television
In 1975, it was estimated that 94 percent of families
owned black-and-white television sets.
Colour television was launched in 1975, rejuvenating
interest in the medium.Within three years of its launch,
it was estimated that 70 percent of households in
Sydney owned a colour television set.
Television production techniques also developed throughout the decade. In 1979,
for example, a camera mounted inside a car transmitted images of the Bathurst
1000 car race directly to viewers at home.This gave viewers a much more exciting,
first-hand television experience.
Satellite or 'pay' television was introduced in 1995. PayTV enabled Australians to
access a much greater range of sport, news, movie and entertainment channels,
24 hours a day.
9. Vhsvideostandard
(1976)
Video Home System(VHS)
was developed in 1976 by the JVC
company as a rival to Sony’s
Betamax.VHS cassettes could
record and play video in two
speeds ( normal and long play)
which provided two or four hours of
recording time respectively.
In the late 1970’s to the early
1980’s, Betamax andVHS
competed in what is now
remembered as the ‘videotape
format war’ where both products
fought for dominance in the
market.
10. Appleareborn
(1976)
Steve Wozniak
designed the Apple
I, a single-board
computer. With
specification in
hand and an order
for 100 machines at
$500 each from the
Byte shop, he and
Steve Jobs got their
start in business.
11. Homegamingisborn
(1977)
Atari released the AtariVideo
Computer System(VCS) – later
renamed Atari 2600.
TheVCS was the first widely
successful video game system,
selling more than twenty million
units throughout the 1980’s.
TheVCS used the 8-bit MOS
6507 microprocessor and was
designed to be connected to a home
television set.When the last Atari
game consoles were made in 1990,
more than 900 game titles had been
released.
12. ThePersonalComputer
The first personal computer was invented
in 1977 by Intel anAd the computer was
called the INTEL 4004. The personal
computer was for recording data, playing a
variety of games and calculating data. As
time passed on the personal computer got
smaller and had new features due to
technology advancements. Later other
companies started to make computer such
as Apple and Commodore Pet.
13. TheCellularMobilePhone
The first cellular mobile phone was invented
by Bell Labs and licensed by AT&T in 1977. Other
phones were licensed by AT&T before but weren't
mobile. Before the cellular mobile phone was
invented the federal communications service had to
agree to take action before the phone could be
sold. When the phone was able to be bot it became
really popular and many house holds carried the
phone. As time passed the phones became smaller
and different companies stepped up and created
phones.
14. Thevcr
The technology inVideocassette
Recorders (VCR’s) was highly mechanical, and
even in their latter years,VCR’s weren’t much
smaller than a briefcase. It wasn’t until the mid-
70s thatVCRs manufactured by Japanese firms
were made reliable and affordable. Once they
started entering people’s homes, they
fundamentally changed the way people
consumed both television and movies.
