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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 ...
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]
December 20 - The World Wide Web software is first tested by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. 1992 January 14 - The first intracytoplasmic sperm injection in vitro fertilization produced baby is born by mechanically injecting a single, selected sperm cell into an egg. Detection of extrasolar planets orbiting a pulsar is confirmed. [2] 1994
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 ...
A 1983 cover article in Time, "The New Economy", described the transition from heavy industry to a new technology based economy. [5] By 1997, Newsweek was referring to the "new economy" in many of its articles. [6] After a nearly 25-year period of unprecedented growth, the United States experienced a much discussed economic slowdown beginning ...
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 saw a dramatic advance in technology, with the World Wide Web. [4] Predominant factors and trends included the continued mass mobilization of capital markets through neoliberalism, the thawing and sudden end of the Cold War after four decades of fear, the beginning of the widespread proliferation of new media such as the Internet and email, and increasing skepticism towards government.
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.