The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum added a share button to share their collection pieces of art in the life simulation video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
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“Well Now WTF?” www.wellnow.wtf(Online exhibition)
Probe Hayabusa returns from asteroid Itokawa and becomes personified.
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Apple releases iPad in the U.S.
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Number of Skype users exceeds 600 million.
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“Exploration in Possible Spaces,” NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
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Zachary Lieberman, Theo Watson, Chris Sugrue, and the Free Art & Technology Lab, Graffiti Research Lab, and OpenFrameworks teams developed an open-source eye-tracking system EyeWriter.
A program bug in World of Warcraft unleashed the Corrupted Blood disease, which spread through the online community much like a real virus in an actual pandemic.
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“Reactivity: unpredictable past,” NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
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“SHIDA TEN,” nou LABORATORY, Tokyo
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“Navigator,” National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
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Japanese SNS mixi and GREE were established.
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Valve releases Half-Life 2, a first-person shooter.
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Google listed on NASDAQ.
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Valve releases Garry’s Mod, a sandbox game using the Source Engine.
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“56kTV – bastard channel”(Online exhibition)
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Nintendo releases a handheld game console Nintendo DS.
Amazon releases online marketplace for books amazon.com, and listed on NASDAQ.
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Siseido launches the net gallery CyGNet.
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Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake.
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Online auction eBay was launched.
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Yukihiro Matsumoto develops the object-oriented program language Ruby.
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Macromedia releases Shockwave Player.
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IEFT announces HTML2.0.
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NTT launches Telehodai, a flat-rate internet connection service for late-night hours.
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Mark Napier’s potatoland
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 1.0.
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Microsoft releases Windows95.
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Mobile communication service PHS was lanuched.
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Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz proposes an internet mailing list Nettime.
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Legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick was arrested.
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Sun Microsystems releases developing environment Java.
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Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii.
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JODI’s http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
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Tokyo subway sarin attack
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Akaiwa starts a part-time job in web development.
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Denso(Denso Wave) invents the QR code.
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Web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0.
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Matsumoto sarin attack.
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Tim Berners-Lee establishes World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organization that promotes international standardization of Web technologies.
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32-bit game machine Sega’s Sega Saturn, Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation, and others were released.
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While traveling alone, Akaiwa’s flight doesn’t fly due to heavy snowfall, so she spends the night on a plane and in an airport lobby. A person she met at that time tells her about the Internet, and she becomes interested in it. She was impressed by the fact that anyone could connect to the world without traveling.
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Iomega launches removable magnetic disk media Zip drive.
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Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles.
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Akaiwa bought her first computer Power Macintosh 6100.
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Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
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Alexei Shulgin releases the online photo museum Hot Pictures.
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David Blair releases Waxweb, a film that enables users to watch the sequences in the order determined by choices made at every step of the way through the story.
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Apple releases the PowerBook laptop computer.
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The U.S. Department of Defense starts the GPS project with the full constellation of satellites operational.
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Shuji Nakamura invents and commercializes the high-luminance blue LED.
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Information superhighway was associated with later Vice-President Al Gore.
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Computer culture magazine WIRED was first issued.
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Adobe releases AfterEffects.
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Alessandro Ludovico and Ivan Iusco published the first issue of neural.it.
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Establishment of the EU (European Union).
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IIJ launched the internet connection service.
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HTML version 1.0 was released.
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Web browser NCSA Mosaic was released.
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Apple releases a series of personal digital assistants(PDA) Newton MessagePad.
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1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
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Dial-up telephone networking Karaoke was released.
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Sony releases MD player.
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Reed Gazzara named opportunity operations with electronic circuits as “circuit bending”.
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Sembo entered the Department of Design, Tokyo Art University.
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Akaiwa had a part-time job at Canon Art Lab. She experienced media art.
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Macromedia releases Director4.0.
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Joint Photographic Experts Group creats the standard of JPEG.
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Wolfgang Staehle founds a bulletin board system(BBS) The Thing.
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NTT InterCommunication’91 The Museum Inside The Telephone Network.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Fraunhofer Society in Germany invents the MP3 audio data compression algorithm.
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Linus Torvalds announces Linux.
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(Thought)George P. Landow’s Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology.
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3.5-inch MO drive was released.
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Akaiwa moved to Tokyo and entered the Department of Sculpture at Tokyo Art University.
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Canon ARTLAB was launched.
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NHK starts HDTV test broadcasting.
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The Persian Gulf War begins.
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Apple releases QuickTime.
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MacroMind releases Director2.0 which is equiped with a programming language Lingo.
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David Zicarelli released MAX for Macintosh from Opcode.
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Sembo gets into skateboarding.
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Tim Berners-Lee develops the world’s first web server httpd and a web browser World Wide Web.
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ISEA(Inter-Society for the Elecronic Arts) was launched in Holland.
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Nintendo releases Super Nintendo Entertainment System(SNES).
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Toshio Iwai produced the TV show Einstein which was created using Amiga.
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Hubble Space Telescope was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery.
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German reunification.
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Human Genome Analysis Project begins in the U.S..
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1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
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Fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Nintendo releases a handheld game console Game Boy.
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Richard Stallman releases free software licenses GNU General Public License.
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End of the Cold War.
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First issue of cyber culture magazine Mondo 2000 was published. (Predecessor was High Frontiers which was first issued in 1984.)
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Tim Berners-Lee proposes the concept of HTML and World Wide Web.
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Toshiba releases the world’s first laptop computer DynaBook.
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The Heisei era starts after the death of Emperor Hirohito.
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Hiroshi Yasuda and Leonardo Chiariglione launched Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), an organization that standardizes digital video compression technology.
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1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
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Yo! MTV Raps begins.
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Akaiwa had frequently goes to a local live music venue.
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Jun Murai launched the Internet Research Consortium WIDE Project.
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NeXT releases NEXTSTEP-equipped workstation NeXT Cube.
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NTT launches a mobile telephone service.
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International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems(Artificial Life I) was held in Santa Fe.
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Steve Wilhite of CompuServe develops a file format GIF.
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Fujio Masuoka of Toshiba invents Flash memory (NAND type).
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Richard Dawkins’s The Blind Watchmaker
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Enix released the game “Dragon Quest”.
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Chernobyl disaster
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Microsoft releases Windows1.0.
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Richard Stallman founds Free Software Foundation.
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Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros..
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The International Exposition, Tsukuba, Japan
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The third round deregulation of communication channels in Japan, freeing up data exchange services using communication lines.
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The world’s first computer virus was developed.
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MIT launched MIT Media Lab.
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Sembo’s parents gave him SHARP X1 Turbo II. Sembo subscribed to the magazine Microcomputer Basic Magazine.
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The film Dune
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1984 Summer Olympics in LA.
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Nam Jun Paik’s Good Morning Mr. Owell
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JUNET; the first Japanese network connection between Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University started operation.
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Apple releases the first Macintosh.
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Sembo rebelled against the boy’s shaved head school rules in middle school and growed his hair.
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The world’s first GPS satellite was launched.
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Akaiwa’s parents didn’t buy her NES. She mainly played Japanese playing cards Hanafuda.
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TCP/IP was adopted as the communication protocol for ARPANET.
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Sembo’s younger brother bought NES with a New Year’s present of money.
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Nintendo relaeases the Nintendo Entertainment System(NES).
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Rick Prelinger founded thePrelinger Archives.
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Akaiwa’s father threw her TV away.
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Microcomputer Basic Magazine was first issued by Denpa Shimbun.
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William S. Burroughs’ Shotgun Painting.
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Sir Ridley Scott “Blade Runner”
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3.5-inch floppy disk was released
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Andy Warhol’s Dollar Sign.
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Sembo’s parents gave him “Cassette Vision”.
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Epoch Co. releases a home video game console Cassette Vision.
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Rotterdam Media Arts Center V2 starts from building squatter.
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IBM releases a personal computer IBM-PC.
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First launch of Space Shuttle Colombia.
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David Hockney’s photo collage Joiners.
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The artisans of reproduction paintings move to Dafen Village in Shenzhen City, China.
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Iran–Iraq War begins.
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Sony launches portable stereo cassette player Walkman.
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Sony and Philips begin the joint development of the CD.
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The first Ars Electronica.
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Electronic components and kit retailor Akizuki Denshi Tsusho Co., Ltd. was established.
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The world’s first spam email was sent on ARPANET.
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Taito Releases the shooting game Space Invaders.
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Apple launches the Apple II personal computer.
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Timothy Leary’s Neuropolitics
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The Art Brut Collection opens in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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(Thought) Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene.
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Release of teh 5.25-inch floppy disk.
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Steven Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, Inc.
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The Doujinshi (fanzine) sale event Comic Market 1 was held.
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General Instrument developes the PIC.
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End of Vietnam war.
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Sony and Philips announces the CD, which they co-developed.
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The Apollo program, which is the human spaceflight program sending humans to the moon, was ended.
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Uri Geller performs spoon bending on a Japanese TV show.
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Nam June Paik’s TV-Buddha.
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MITS launches the world’s first personal computer, the Altair 8800.
exonemo
Yae Akaiwa was born in Fukuoka, Japan
Her father was a doctor and heart transplant researcher. She was shocked to hear that he had handcrafted an artificial heart out of bicycle parts in his experiments. Her mother made everything. She thinks she inherited the sense of making whatever she doesn’t have from her parents.
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Martin Cooper invents the first cellular mobile phone.
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Lee Perry’s Blackboard Jungle Dub
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Oil Crisis
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Yom Kippur War
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Philips announces the Laser Disc.
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Kensuke Sembo was born in Tokyo. His mother is the daughter of a priest at a temple in Asakusa ( sister of Rokusuke Ei). His father was a substitute boxer in the Tokyo Olympics.
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André Tarkovsky’s Planet Solaris
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Bell Labs Dennis Ritchie Develops C Language.
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8-inch floppy disks were released.
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Alan Kay created the prototype computer, Alto, which introduced window operation (GUI).
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Xerox established the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
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The Art Basel art fair for modern and contemporary art begins in Basel, Switzerland.
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Expo ’70
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Japan Airlines Flight 351 gets hijacked.
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Dub was accidentally discovered by reggae engineer King Tubby, and eventually led to the Remix trend.
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Riot at Yasuda Auditorium, of the University of Tokyo.
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The U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launches ARPANET, a packet communications computer network.
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Woodstock Music and Art Festival
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U.S. spacecraft Apollo 11 successfully lands on the moon for the first time in the world.
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AT&T’s Bell Labs develops UNIX.
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The first message sent on the ARPANET was “lo” (the system crashed when “lo” of “login:” was sent).
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The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico.
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Andy Warhol’s Chicken Noodle from Campbell’s Soup I.
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NTT launches its pager service.
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Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog was published.
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Douglas Engelbart demonstrates NLS, a system that enables hypertext, windowing systems, video conferencing, and email.
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The film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey depicts the fictional artificial intelligence HAL 9000.
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Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore co-author The Medium Is the Massage.
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IBM labs develop the Floppy Disk.
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Reed Ghazala names electronic chance operations as circuit bending.
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Joseph Weizenbaum completes the natural language processing program ELIZA (1964-66) and becomes the origin of the later created bot system (artificial incompetence).
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CloKlüver, Rauschenberg and others founded E.A.T.
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Ken Knowlton from Bell Labs presents Text Art (ASCII art) examples on Studies in Perception I co-authored with Leon Harmon.
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American television station WPIX starts to broadcast a television program (Slow Television) that continues to show an image of wood burning in a fireplace.
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Nam June Paik’s Video Sculpture TV Magnet.
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E.A. Johnson invents the Touchscreen.
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American inventor James Russell invents optical media technology for music.
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1964 Tokyo Olympic Games
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ASCII character code was standardized.
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Ivan Sutherland announces Sketchpad, a precursor to the GUI.
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Kyu Sakamoto’s Sukiyaki(Ue wo muite arukou) becomes a big hit in the United States.
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SAGE, the world’s first GUI control system, is developed by the U.S. Air Force.
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Philips develops a magnetic audio recording tape, the Compact Cassette (cassette tape).
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Fluxus begins its activity.
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Fluxus member Ray Johnson announces the Mail Art manifesto.
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Andy Warhol’s Chicken Noodle from Campbell’s Soup I.
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The Soviet Union completed its first manned space flight.
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George H. Heilmeier began his research on liquid crystals.
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Douglas Engelbart invents a screen selection device (the “mouse”).
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Morton Heilig filed a patent application for the Telesphere Mask head-mounted display.
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Color TV broadcasts start in Japan.
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Ted Nelson announces the Xanadu Project, a hypertext development project.
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Completion of Tokyo Tower.
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Introduction of Liquitex acrylic paints.
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Establishment of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) within the U.S. Department of Defense.
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The world’s first satellite, Sputnik 1 was launched.
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The hard disk drive (HDD) invented by Reynold Johnson was installed in IBM’s commercial computers.
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The first Artificial Intelligence Conference Held at Dartmouth College.
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The Vietnam war begins.
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Color TV broadcasts begin in the United States.
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James Watson and Francis Crick reveal the double-helix structure of DNA.
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Establishment of OYAIDE ELEC.CO.,LTD.
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Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End.
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Premire of John Cage’s 4’33.
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Jeffrey Dummer presents his idea of the Integrated Circuit (IC).
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Magnetic Tape was introduced as an input/output device for UNIVAC I.
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Formation of the interdisciplinary art group Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop), led by Shuzo Takiguchi.
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Whirlwind, a computer developed by MIT, uses Magnetic Core Memory.
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Alan Turing presents the Turing Test in his paper Computational Machines and Intelligence.
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The Korean War begins.
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Claude Shannon’s article, A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
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Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics.
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AT&T Bell Labs invents the Transistor.
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Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn invented the Williams Tube computer storage device.
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World’s first ‘computer bug’ after a moth gets caught in Harvard’s Mark II computer.
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Vannevar Bush publishes the essay As We May Think.
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John von Neumann proposed the Neumann-type computer (with built-in programs).
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Jean Dubuffet describes non-traditional art as Art Brut (raw art).
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ENIAC, the world’s first electronic general-purpose computer, is completed at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Lucio Fontana proposes Spatialism.
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William Hanna and Joseph Barbera create Tom and Jerry.
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End of World War II.
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World War II begins.
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The Second Sino-Japanese War begins.
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Len Lye’s experimental film A Color Box, the original glitch art.
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Gustav Taushek invents the Magnetic Drum Memory.
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John Logie Baird invented the Color TV using RGB filters.
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The Magnetic Tape was invented.
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Newlyweds in central England take their own photo with a homemade selfie stick for the first time.
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Establishment of IDPW, an Internet-based secret society that has existed for 100 years.
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End of World War I.
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The avant-garde art movement Dada began in Zurich and later spread around the world.
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World War I begins.
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“Armory Show (International Exhibition of Modern Art)” was held in New York.
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Luigi Russolo invents the noise instrument Intonarumori.
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Albert Einstein presents the Special Theory of Relativity.
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Herman Hollerith develops a relay type electric tabulating machine controlled by punched cards.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton coined the phrase “the pen is mightier than the sword.”
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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
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Joseph Marie Jacquard develops the Jacquard loom that uses punched cards.
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Hermann von Helmholtz presents Young-Helmholtz’s Trichromatic Theory.
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Albrecht Dürer paints his first self-portrait in oil.
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Japan’s first Shakyo (sutra copying) was performed.