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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]
The kākāpō, a bird species of New Zealand, was termed a threatened species. The Department of Conservation started an endangered species recovery plan for the kākāpō in 1989. The K-T extinction event , when dinosaurs became extinct, was shown to be linked to excess iridium in the boundary layer, which implied that the cause was a massive ...
The development of web browsers such as Netscape Navigator (originally known as Mosaic) in 1993 and Internet Explorer in 1995 makes surfing the World Wide Web easier and more user friendly. From 1994 onward, businesses start to build e-commerce websites; e-commerce-only companies such as Amazon.com, eBay, AOL, and Yahoo! grow rapidly.
This was the first version of DOS to provide network support, and provides some new functions to handle networking. US Symbolics registered the symbolics.com domain, the first .com domain in the world. April US Expanded memory specification, a memory paging scheme for PCs, was introduced by Lotus and Intel. June US Commodore 128 was released ...
Commercial providers were allowed to sell Internet connections to individuals. Many people began using the Internet, especially with the new interface provided by the World-Wide Web (see 1989) and NCSA Mosaic. 1993 Release of the first version of ELOQUENS, a text-to-speech commercial software, from CSELT. [12] 1993
Between the mid-1940s and 1950s, various developments were made in computer software.Some of these developments include servo-motors controlled by generated pulse (1949), a digital computer with built-in operations to automatically coordinate transforms to compute radar related vectors (1951), and the graphic mathematical process of forming a shape with a digital machine tool (1952).
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the pioneers of packet switching technology built computer networks providing data communication, that is the ability to transfer data between points or nodes. As more of these networks emerged in the mid to late 1970s, the debate about communication protocols became a "battle for access standards".
May 3: Apollo Global Management, Inc enters an agreement with Verizon to acquire Verizon Media (Yahoo! and AOL Brands) for $5 billion. The new company will be known as Yahoo at the close of the deal. [163] May 4: Yahoo Answers close services after 16 years of being active. [164]