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The worm was launched from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and caused considerable damage. In 1989, its creator became the first person indicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act . December – Europe obtains its first permanent connection to the Internet, by satellite between Princeton University and Stockholm, Sweden .
The 68000 can address 16 MB of RAM, a noticeable improvement over Intel's 8088/8086 family. However the Apple achieved 0.7 MIPS and originally came with just 128 KB of RAM. It came fitted with a monochrome monitor and was the first successful mouse-driven computer with a Graphical user interface. The Macintosh included many of the Lisa's ...
1980s Lisp machines developed and marketed. First expert system shells and commercial applications. 1980 First National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) held at Stanford. 1981 Danny Hillis designs the connection machine, which utilizes parallel computing to bring new power to AI, and to computation in ...
The iconic company went on to be the top video-rental company in the U.S. throughout the '90s and early 2000s. November 20, 1985 — Microsoft releases the first version of Windows The original ...
The first wireless remote control for a television US-based Zenith consists of a better flashlight, with which one lights up in one of the four devices corners to turn the unit on or off, change the channel or mute the sound. 1956 The company Metz introduces radio device type 409 / 3D. First mass production of printed circuit boards. This ...
By the early 2000s, digital cameras had eclipsed traditional film in popularity. Digital ink and paint was also invented in the late 1980s. Disney's CAPS system (created 1988) was used for a scene in 1989's The Little Mermaid and for all their animation films between 1990's The Rescuers Down Under and 2004's Home on the Range .
279 kya: Hafting and early stone-tipped projectile weapons in Ethiopia [23] 200 kya: Simple glue made of one kind of material, birch tar, in Central Italy by Neanderthals. [24] 200 kya: Beds in South Africa. [25] [26] [27] 170 kya – 90 kya: Clothing, among anatomically modern humans in Africa.
On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-8103-8396-8. Berger, Michael L. The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide (Greenwood, 2001). Condit, Carl W. The railroad and the city: a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati (The Ohio State University Press, 1977) online.