1. 1970 TO 1980's MEDIA &
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
BY:KRISTINA CASSANDRA E. REMOLLO
KRISTINE SALUDO
HARVEY JIMENEZ
NOLLY REQUINA

2. 1970-C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
• The programming language C
first appeared in the early 1970s.
The creation of C often credited
to Dennis Ritchie and his work at
AT&T Bell Labs.

3. 1971-Intel 4004
• In 1971, Intel released the first
programmable microprocessor
to the market, the intel 4004.
Three of its inventor, Stanley
Mazor, Federico Faggin, and Ted
Hoff, were awarded the National
Medal og Technology and
Innovation by US Prisedent
Barack Obama for working on
the 4004.

4. 1971-Email
• Yes, the bne of our modern lives
came about as a result of work
done by a man known as Ray
Tomlinson in 1971. He says on
his site, “I sent the first network
email in 1971 using a program I
wrote called SNDMSG.”

5. 1972-FIRSTMODERN VIDEO GAME
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 bar in Grass
Valley and Sunnyvale, California
where it proved very popular.Pong
would revolutionize the arcade
industry and launch the modern
video game era.

6. 1973- FIRST CELL PHONE CALL
• On April 3 the first handheld cellular
phone call is made by Martin Cooper of
Motorola from Sixth Avenue, New York
City to Joel Engel of Bell Labs. The phone
call passed through a newly established
cellular base station nearby and into the
AT&T land-line telephone system.
Martin was standing on Sixth Avenue
near the New York Hilton hotel amazing
reporters and bystanders. Reporters of
their choice to prove the new cell phone
could reach any phone.

7. 1974- THE ALTAIR
• Between 1971 and 1980, Ray
Tomilson sowed the seeds of
modern e-mail with the APRAnet's
“SNDMSG” coomand. Bob Kahn and
Vint Cerf sowed the seeds of the
modern Internet with TCP/IP. And
Dennis Richtie and Ken Thompson
sowed the seeds for so many other
things with UNIX and C
programming language.
• The Altair 8800 kits started shipping
December 1974, and then, a month
later, the machine appeared on the
cover of popular electronics.

8. 1975-MICROSOFT are BORN
• In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen
formed a partnership called the
Microsoft. Like most start-ups,
Microsoft begins small, but have
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 company in
the world.

9. 1975- BETAMAX VIDEO STANDARD was
INTRODUCE
• Betamax was an analogue videocassette which
allowed the recording and playback of videos.
Betamax was developed by SONY and released
in Japan on May 10th 1975. The name “beta”
comes from the fact that when the tape run
through the transport it capability.
• Later versions of Betamax could record and play
video at two different speeds- normal and half-
speed (termed 'long play').
• Normal speed recording allowed for 1hr for
content and half- speed allowed for over 2hrs.
The Betamax intially retailed for just over
$1,000.

10. 1976- VHS video standard introduced
• Video Home System (VHS) was
developed in 1976 by 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 hrs.
of recording time respectively.
The late 1970's to the early
1980's, Betamax and VHS
competed in what is now
remembered as the “video tape
format war”.

11. 1976- APPLE are BORN
• Steve Wozniak designed the
apple 1, a single-board
computer. With specifications in
hand and an order for 100
machines at $500 each from the
Byte Shop, he and Steve Jobs got
their start in business. About
200 of the machines sold before
the company announced the
Apple ll as a complete computer.

12. 1977- HOME GAMING was BORN
• Atari released the Atari video
computer system (VCS)-later
named the Atari 2600.
• The VCS was the first widely
successful video game system,
selling more than 20 million
units throughout the 1980's.

13. 1978-CBBS (Computerized Bulletin Board System)
• CBBS (Computerized Bulletin Board System)
was a computer program by Ward
Christensen to allow him and other computer
hobbyists to exchange information between
each another.
• In January 1978, Chicago was hit by the Great
Bizzard of 1978, which dumped record
amounts of snow throughout the midwest.
Among those caught in the storm were
Christensen and Randy Suess, who were
members of CACHE, the Chicago Area
Computer Hobbyists' Exchange. They had
met at that computer club in the mid-1970s
and become friends.

14. 1979- Sony Walkman
• Commonly referred to as an 80s
invention, the Sony Walkman
was actually first marketed in
1979. The name Walkman
became synonymous with
portable tape players and the
brand is now used to market
Sony's line of MP3 players.

15. 1980- FIRST HARD DISK DRIVE
• Seagate technology created the
first hard disk drive for
Microcomputers, the ST506. The
disk held 5 magabytes of data, 5
times as much as standard
floppy disk, and fit in the space
of a floppy disk drive.
• The hard disk drive itself as a
rigid matalic coated on both
sides material that stores digital
data.

16. • Reference:
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