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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.
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]
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
The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as "the '90s" or "the Nineties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31 December 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s were culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001. [1]
Mid 1980s: Invention: IBM begins work on the Tangora, a machine that would be able to recognize 20,000 spoken words by the mid-1980s. [5] 1987: Invention: The invention of the World of Wonder's Julie Doll, a toy children could train to respond to their voice, brings speech recognition technology to the home. [1] 1990: Invention
An axe made of iron, dating from the Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden: Iron—as a new material—initiated a dramatic revolution in technology, economy, society, warfare and politics. A technological revolution is a period in which one or more technologies is replaced by another new technology in a short amount of time.