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Lee A. Newberg, Richard Rouse III, and John Kruper publish "Integrating the World-Wide Web and Multi-User Domains to Support Advanced Network-Based Learning Environments" in the Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (1995), Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Graz, Austria. [71]
1980 Development of ENQUIRE and MS-DOS begin. 1981 MS-DOS debuts. 1982 The first compact discs are sold, which would eventually replace the audiocassette in the 1990s. 1983 Computer "virus" terminology introduced by Fred Cohen. [2] Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software launched. [3] 1984 The Apple Macintosh is released. FidoNet begins. 1985
Macintosh Classic released, [3] an identical replacement to the Macintosh Plus of January 1986. Also came the Macintosh IIsi which ran a 68030 processor at 20 MHz to achieve 5.0 MIPS, and also a 256 colour video adapter. November 12 Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal to the management at CERN which coined the term WorldWideWeb. [4] November
On February 1 the 80286 processor was released. [12] It implements a new mode of operation, protected mode – allowing access to more memory (up to 16 MB compared to 1 MB for the 8086). At introduction the fastest version ran at 12.5 MHz, achieved 2.7 MIPS and contained 134,000 transistors. March US MS-DOS 1.25, PC DOS 1.1 [needs context] April UK
[215] [216] [217] James Pelkey conducted interviews with Internet pioneers in the late 1980s and completed his book with Andrew Russell in 2022. [ 3 ] Martin Campbell-Kelly and Valérie Schafer have focused on British and French contributions as well as global and international considerations in the development of packet switching ...
In the late 1980s, less than 1% of the world's technologically stored information was in digital format, while it was 94% in 2007, with more than 99% by 2014. [52] It is estimated that the world's capacity to store information has increased from 2.6 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 1986, to some 5,000 exabytes in 2014 (5 zettabytes). [52] [53]
After the proposal was grudgingly approved by his superiors, he called the new system the World Wide Web. [105] Chris Moore, Chief Technology Officer at THINQ Learning Solutions for many years, pioneered the TrainingServer learning management system for Syscom, Inc. Syscom was acquired by THINQ in 2000. THINQ was by Saba in 2005.
In the late 1980s, COMDEX was opened to the general public, causing an explosion in attendance, [citation needed] but diluting COMDEX's wholesale industry focus. [ citation needed ] Retailers and consultants complained that 'leading edge' customers, upon whom they relied for early adoption of new technology, were buying products at 'show ...