Chronology of Events - 1960s
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The following is a chronological listing of significant events in the development of the field of Information Technology law during the 1960s:
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[edit] 1960
October 1960 — UCLA hosts the First National Conference on Law and Electronics at Lake Arrowhead, California
November 1960 — Roy N. Freed publishes the first article on computer law: “A Lawyer’s Guide Through the Computer Maze,” in The Practical Lawyer.
[edit] 1961
May 31, 1961 — The first paper on packet switching theory: Leonard Kleinrock, "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets," is published in RLE Quarterly Progress Report.[1]
[edit] 1962
August 1962 — The first paper on the concept of the Internet is published: J.C.R. Licklider & Welden Clark, "On-Line Man Computer Communication."[2]
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1963 — The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers.
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1964 — Paul Baran (RAND) publishes "On Distributed Communications Networks," which described the Internet and digital packet switching.[3]
[edit] 1965
1965 — Ted Nelson coins the term "hypertext," which refers to text that is not necessarily linear.
April 19, 1965 — Gordon Moore declares that computing power will double every 18 months, a prophecy that is known as Moore's Law.
[edit] 1966
1966 — IBM develops DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), which allows fast, compact, reliable and inexpensive data storage on computer systems. By the mid-1970s, DRAM becomes the standard for virtually all computers.
February 1966 — ARPANET is founded.
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[edit] 1969
1969 — AT&T Bell Laboratories develops UNIX to make porting software applications easier. It was first licensed to universities, and later to corporations. It then became the backbone of the Internet.
1969 — CompuServe, the first commercial online service, is established.
January 17, 1969 — United States attorney general Ramsey Clark charges IBM with unlawful monopolization of the computer industry, and requests the federal courts break it up. (13 years later, the U.S. Justice Department will drop the case.)
June 23, 1969 — IBM adopts a new marketing policy that charges separately for most systems engineering activities, future computer programs, and customer education courses. This "unbundling" gives rise to a multibillion-dollar software and services industry.
September 2, 1969 — First Internet node is installed at UCLA. [4]
October 1, 1969 — Node 2 of the Internet is installed at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
October 29, 1969 — First data packets are sent from UCLA to SRI. The first attempt resulted in the system crashing as the letter G of LOGIN was entered.
November 1, 1969 — Node 3 of the Internet is installed at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).
December 1969 — Node 4 of the Internet is installed at the University of Utah (December)
