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1974 Technology & Gadgets
Without official dates 1974 is the year pocket calculators, office word processors and the first UPC bar code scanners appear in stores.
The Arecibo radio telescope built in 1963 sent an interstellar radio message into deep space. The M13 Great Globular Cluster will receive the message in about 25,000 years.
The message was in binary code containing 1679 digits in a 23 by 73 rectangle expressing numbers 1 through 10, atomic numbers of our most prevalent elements, DNA information, sugar formula, a graphic of a human, our solar system and the arecibo telescope. Below is the colorized version of the actual message. Full explanation of the code
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1974 Toys & Gadgets
Magna Doodle. Invented by Japanese engineers to create a chalk less chalkboard, this magnetic drawing toy, much like an Etch A Sketch with a pen, did not become a classroom success but has sold over 40 million units as the most popular drawing toy of all time.
On No! Its Space Eyes!
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The Year That Was A retro, nostalgic multimedia journey through the years (c) Copyright Hard Response 1996 - 2009 |
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