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Roland releases the drum machine TR-808 which would end up revolutionizing music of all genres in the 1980s to a more electronic/futuristic sound. [5] The drum machine Linn LM-1, also released in 1980, was the more expensive alternative to the TR-808. It became a staple of 1980s pop music. [6]
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 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
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 ...
Pages in category "1980s in technology" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Timeline of computing 1980–1989; V. Videotape format war
The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques by humans. Technology includes methods ranging from simple stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s.
The Air Jordan 1 line debuted in 1985 and sparked a whole new obsession among sneakerheads. The original colors, such as the “Bred” (black and red) and “Chicago” (red and white), are ...
By 1960, magnetic core was the dominant memory technology, although there were still some new machines using drums and delay lines during the 1960s. Magnetic thin film and rod memory were used on some second-generation machines, but advances in core technology meant they remained niche players until semiconductor memory displaced both core and ...