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		synnik on July 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mark Zuckerberg's TopCoder profile I'll buy that IF you can tell me what innovations in 1961 were affecting the general public, and who was driving them. I rather suspect cultural memory is short-term.

cryptoz on July 3, 2011 [–]

Space travel. 1961 was a hot year. Yuri went to space, for example.

Evgeny on July 4, 2011 | [–]

However it's Yuri's name that comes to mind first, but how many would immediately remember Sergey Korolyov?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov

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