Nam June Paik is born on July 20, 1932, in Seoul, Korea. He is the third son and youngest child of a prosperous business family.
The term “cathode ray tube” is trademarked by RCA, though the product first became available as early as 1922.
The first commercially produced electronic TV sets containing cathode ray tubes are manufactured by Telefunken in Germany.
The first commercially produced electronic TV sets containing cathode ray tubes are manufactured by Telefunken in Germany.
Cable TV first becomes available in the United States.
Norbert Weiner, an American mathematician and philosopher, publishes Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, a seminal book that provides a theoretical foundation for the study of cybernetics and analog computing.
The first commercially available closed-circuit television (CCTV) system is released by Vericon, an American government contractor. CCTV was first used in 1942 by Siemens AG to observe the takeoff of V2 rockets in Nazi Germany. This and other early CCTV systems are not yet able to record and store information.
The Paik family moves to Hong Kong to escape the Korean War.
The Paik family moves to Tokyo, where Paik enrolls at Tokyo University to study music, art history, and aesthetics.
The Korean War—between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)—officially commences on June 25 and continues until an armistice agreement is signed on July 27, 1953.
