1777 – The Spanish founded California’s first civilian settlement called Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe. It would become the future state’s first capital and eventually the heart of Silicon Valley.
1910 – The first US patent for a traffic signal system was issued to Ernest E. Sirrine. It switched an illuminated sign between the words “stop” and “proceed.”
1972 – First Pong Machine
Andy Cappa’s tavern in CA was the site for the first Pong game was wheeled into the establishment. The coin-operated game was put in by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell and game designer AL Alcorn. The duo decided that making their own game – rather than having 3rd parties do it – would help keep costs down. They then turned on old Roller rink and converted to a production line. Pong was the first successful video game system.
1974 – The January issue of Popular Electronics was published featuring the Altair 8800 microcomputer from Micro Instrumentation Telemetry System in Albuquerque, New Mexico on the cover. For $439 you got everything you needed to build a computer in one kit boasting 256 bytes of memory!
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