1969

• Charged coupled device (CCD) imaging chip is used in all future digital cameras and camcorders invented by Bell Lab physicists Wiliam Boyle and George Smith.
• Four-channel stereo tapes and players are marketed.
• ARPnet, a forerunner of the Internet, becomes operational.
• Gruen introduces the first LCD watch.

1968

• The Carterphone decision allows consumers to connect equipment to phones, allowing manufacturers to market telephone answering devices.
• The computer mouse and graphical user interface (GUI) is demonstrated by Douglas Engelbart and commercialized by the Apple Macintosh 16 years later.
• The first stable LCD panels are developed by an RCA team led by George Heilmeier.

1967

• The first Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is held in New York.
• Ray Dolby develops the noise reduction system.

1966

• Integrated circuits are introduced into consumer products, starting with pocket calculators and electronic watches.

1965

• Eight-track audio players are marketed.
• The first commercial telecommunications satellite, Early Bird (Intelsat 1), is launched.
• Sony Corp. introduces the first portable consumer video recorder.

1964

• AT&T demonstrates the futuristic picture phone at the World’s Fair.
• The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is adopted.
• The first commercial device with an integrated circuit, a hearing aid, is sold.
• Sony engineer Koichi Tsunoda proposes the videocassette.

1963

• Philips Electronics NV introduces the compact audiocassette.
• Optical videodisc, the basis for today’s laserdisc and DVD, is demonstrated.
• AT&T inaugurates TouchTone service.
• LCD screen technology is suggested for the first time.
• The computer "mouse" is patented.

1962

• Legislation passes requiring all-channel tuning (UHF and VHF) in television receivers.
• Nicholas Holonyak at GE develops the first LED.

1961

• Stereo is incorporated into FM radio.

1960

• The first telephone-answering device is available to consumers.
• The first rectangular screen TV is introduced.
• The first battery-operated transistorized TV is made for sale.
• Echo, the first communications satellite, launchs.
• The first working laser is built.