The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson who used the '@' sign. Pong, the first commercially successful video game, was released in 1972. By 1973, almost three-quarters of Australian families had a home telephone. In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed Microsoft with a vision of a computer on every desktop. Betamax and VHS were competing video formats in the late 1970s. The first personal computer, the Intel 4004, was invented in 1977 along with the first cellular mobile phone.

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.

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