Computer Science
- July 4 - Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg.
- November 3 - The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published.
- November 15 - Intel release the world's first microprocessor, the 4004.
- end - Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPAnet e-mail between host computers, at BBN, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the first use of the @ sign in an address.
Read more about this topic: 1971 In Science
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