South Africa, Oct. 16 -- There is no doubt that 1969 was one of the greatest years for technology in human history. To mention a few significant technological events that occurred in 1969, we landed a man on the moon for the first time on July 20, we installed the first automatic teller machine (ATM) on 2 September in New York City and finally on 29 October came the pioneering invention of what would be known today as the internet.

1969 will go down as a notable year with the world being introduced to Neil Armstrong and John Shepherd-Baron; they would come to be known as the first human on the moon and the inventor of the ATM respectively. In the same year, little-known 21-year-old UCLA student programmer Charley Kline administered the f...