The 70's 30 items | updated Mar 4 2012

    • The History of Bar Code
      By 1970, the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code or UGPIC was written by a company called Logicon Inc. The first company to produce bar code equipment for...
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    • First Test-Tube Baby
      On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful "test-tube" baby was born in Great Britain.
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    • The History of Earth Day
      On April 22, 1970, 20 million people, 2,000 colleges and universities, 10,000 grammar and high schools and 1,000 communities mobilized for the first nationwide...
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    • Happy Days
      One of the most popular TV programs of the late 1970s.
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    • The Sugarland Express
      A 1974 film starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton. First theatrical feature film directed by Steven Spielberg. The first motion picture filmed with the...
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    • Floppy Disk
      Floppy disk drives were originally introduced commercially as a read-only device to hold microcode and diagnostics for large IBM mainframe computer systems in the...
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    • Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes - video
      February 1979 • Billboard: #1
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    • Pet Rock
      Pet Rocks were a 1970s fad conceived in Los Gatos, California by advertising executive Gary Dahl. The first Pet Rocks were ordinary gray stones and marketed as if...
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