1960 – The JOSS (Johniac Open Shop System) conversational time-sharing service began on the Rand Corporation’s Johnniac computer. Time sharing reduced the time programmers had to wait after turning in their punch cards.
http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/11/mco2012110012.html
1994 – University of North Carolina student radio station WXYC began what is considered the world’s first Internet radio broadcast. DJ Michael Shoffner set it up. The simulcast continues today.
http://www.wxyc.org/about/simulcast
1996 – NASA launched the Mars global surveyor, humanity’s return to Mars after a 10-year absence. The mission discovered much about the Geology of the planet.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/past/globalsurveyor/
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http://multicians.org/history.html
JOHNNIAC “…was first implemented in 1963. …” So how do you get a date of 1960?
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM5058.pdf
“”One programming language, JOSS (Johnniac Open Shop System), does have a specific birth date—November 7, 1960. JOSS was developed by J.C. (Cliff) Shaw at Rand Corporation to give users a hands-on “