After DARPA began the Internet program in earnest in 1977, the project members were in need of communication and documentation of their work in order to realize the concepts laid out by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf some years before.

The Art Student's League created a 21-year merit scholarship in 1977 under Alston's name to commemorate each year of his tenure.

In 1977, he created the CINEL for " new spaces of freedom " before joining in the 1980s the ecological movement with his " ecosophy ".

Inspired by Colossal Cave, Marc Blank and Dave Lebling created what was to become the first Infocom game, Zork, in 1977 at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

Laos also maintained a " special relationship " with Vietnam and formalized a 1977 treaty of friendship and cooperation that created tensions with China.

* San Serriffe, an April Fool's Day hoax created by the British newspaper The Guardian, in its April 1, 1977 edition.

One early recorded use of the term " nybble " was in 1977 within the consumer-banking technology group at Citibank that created a pre-ISO 8583 standard for transactional messages, between cash machines and Citibank's data centers, in which a NABBLE was the basic informational unit.

Pente is a strategy board game created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku which is played on a Go board of 19 x 19 intersections with white and black stones.

UNB created its BEd program for First Nations students in 1977 in an effort to help First Nations communities take control of their own schools.

A Representative Assembly was created in 1975 but dissolved in 1977 after demands for the elimination of government-appointees and immediate independence.

Also notable among the earlier hypermedia and virtual reality systems was the Aspen Movie Map, which was created at MIT in 1977.

On 15 December 2011, Chirac was found guilty in two related cases, involving 19 totally or partially fake jobs created for his benefit by the RPR Party, which he led as Paris mayor from 1977 to 1995.

Costa Rican scientist and former astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz created the VASIMR concept and has been working on its development since 1977.

Considering the urgency of the need for standards which would allow constitution of heterogeneous computer networks, ISO created a new subcommittee for " Open Systems Interconnection " ( ISO / TC97 / SC 16 ) in 1977.

These were moderately successful, as the fiscal measures introduced after 1977, with reductions in income and wealth taxes and an increase in the medium-term public investment programme, was estimated to have created 160, 000 additional jobs in 1978 – 79, or 300, 000 if additional public sector employment was included in the figure ).

In 1977 the US Congress created the National Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research to investigate allegations that psychosurgery — including lobotomy techniques — were used to control minorities and restrain individual rights.

The ceremonial post of Deputy President pro tempore was created for Hubert Humphrey, a former vice president, in 1977 following his losing bid to become the Senate majority leader.

Spanish reggae originated in Panama in 1977 and competes with reggaeton ( which was created in Puerto Rico ), having strong Puerto Rican influences such as bomba and plena soca.

On August 4, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed into law The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977 (), which created the Department of Energy.

Although the NLF was not officially abolished until 1977, the Viet Cong no longer used the name after PRG was created.

* 1977, The first microcomputer chess playing machine, CHESS CHALLENGER, was created

: The Atlantic magazine had a long-running cryptic crossword, known as the Puzzler, created by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon beginning in 1977, available only online since March 2006.

Coppola created The Godfather Saga expressly for American television in a 1975 release that combined The Godfather and The Godfather Part II with unused footage from those two films in a chronological telling that, because it toned down the violent, sexual, and profane material, received a rating of TV-14 for its NBC debut on November 18, 1977.

Unusually for material created for the program this story appeared domestically in the Procter & Gamble Disney Magazine giveaway and then was published by Gold Key in " Walt Disney Showcase " n ° 38 ( 1977 ).

* 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space ; the event is named the " Wow!

* 1977 – Matt Morgan, English comedian, actor, and radio host

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

* 1977 – Colin Murray, British radio DJ

In 1977 Philbin was replaced with Bruce Hall to record You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish, released in 1978, which received FM radio airplay.

Project Argus instruments typically exhibit sensitivity on the order of 10 < sup >− 23 </ sup > Watts / square metre, or roughly equivalent to that achieved by the Ohio State University Big Ear radio telescope in 1977, when it detected the landmark " Wow!

Symons left Skyhooks in 1977 and became a radio and television personality.

In 1977, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio adaptation of the four-act version of the play ; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as " Lady Bracknell ", Richard Pasco as " Jack Worthing ", Jeremy Clyde as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Maurice Denham as " Rev.

** CKO ( a Canadian national all-news radio network ) suddenly terminates all broadcasting during the newscast at noon ( Eastern time ), due to financial losses ( the station began broadcasting on July 1, 1977 ).

* John Edward McCarthy ( 1911 – 1977 ), American radio personality

* It was adapted for radio by Bill Morrison, directed by John Tydeman, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 26 September 1977, starring Ed Bishop as Marlowe.

The title track, although not released in the US as a single until 1977, received heavy play in FM radio formats.

The Brisbane independent radio Station 4ZZZ had run a survey under the same name and on the same day since 1977 and owned the rights to the name Hot 100.

Between 1959 and 1977 Phillips became familiar on radio with a leading role in The Navy Lark.

* Dave McDonald ( born 1977 ), radio personality.

They gained national fame on the radio and increased it consistently from 1977 onwards eventually becoming TV stars with the shows Non Stop, La sberla ( 1978 ) and Luna Park ( 1979 ).

In 1977 they recorded " The Floral Dance " which reached Number 2 in the UK Top 40 and stayed there for 6 weeks, inspiring radio DJ Terry Wogan to release his own version some time later.

Little Orphan Annie inspired a radio show in 1930, film adaptations by RKO in 1932 and Paramount in 1938 and a Broadway musical Annie in 1977 ( which itself was released as a film in 1982 ).

Other long-running games on radio include I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue since 1972, The News Quiz from 1977, and My Word!

Calvin's first introduction to underground culture was in 1977 when he became a volunteer at Olympia's community radio station, KAOS-FM, at the age of fifteen.

Alternative 3 is a television programme, broadcast once only in the United Kingdom in 1977, and later broadcast in Australia and New Zealand, as a fictional hoax, an heir to Orson Welles ' radio production of The War of the Worlds.

* Sarnoff was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in the radio division in 1977.