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NOYB wrote:
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Did *anything* good come out of the 60's?


Yes, one good thing for sure........My daughter was born Feb. 13th

1965.
She is the best thing to come out of the 60's.


OK...besides your daughter.


Here are a few:

Telstar (first communications satellite)
Unix operating system, for use on ARPANET, you know, the internet?
Xerox Copier
First manned earth orbit
Unimation, the first industrial robot
Rubella vaccine
The Silent Spring by Rachel Ruben, warning of dangers of pesticides
like DDT
First Human organ transplant.
Fiber optics were developed.
IBM releases OS/360, the first mass produced computer operating system
M.I.T. launches computer time sharing
The computer mouse.
D.E.C. introduces the PDP-8 the first mini-computer.
Solid State radar
Texas Instruments uses semi-conductors in applications for consumer
use.

The list goes on.