1969
•  Four-channel stereo tapes and players marketed.
•  ARPnet, a forerunner of the Internet, becomes operational.

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) demonstrated by Douglas Engelbart and commercialized by the Apple Macintosh 16 years later.

1967
•  The first Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in New York.
•  Ray Dolby develops the noise reduction system.

1966
•  Integrated circuits introduced into consumer products, starting with pocket calculators and electronic watches.

1965
•  Eight-track audio players first marketed.
•  The first commercial telecommunications satellite, Early Bird (Intelsat 1), 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) adopted.
•  The first commercial device with an integrated circuit, a hearing aid, 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, first demonstrated.
•  AT&T inaugurates TouchTone service.
•  LCD screen technology suggested for the first time.
•  The computer "mouse" patented.

1962
•  Legislation passes requiring all-channel tuning (UHF and VHF) in television receivers.

1961
•  Stereo incorporated into FM radio.

1960
•  The first telephone-answering device available to consumers.
•  The first rectangular screen TV is introduced.
•  The first battery-operated transistorized TV made for sale.
•  Echo, the first communications satellite, launched.
•  The first working laser built.