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What
happened during these years?
Chicken feed that makes low-cholesterol
eggs
introduced - 1988
Doppler radar first used - 1988
First
Internet Worm- 1988
The "Morris Worm" was written by Robert Tappan Morris Jr. a
23 year old Cornell
doctoral student. It infected more than 6.000 computers in just a
few hours by
taking advantage of a bug in the Unix fingerd and sendmail programs.
Global positioning system by satellite - 1989
Stealth
Bomber Inaugural Flight - 1989
The B-2 bomber made its first successful test flight over
the California desert.
Windows 3.0
- 1990
MAC System 7
Introduced - 1991
Baboon-human liver transplant - 1992
Instant language translator invented - 1992
'Smart' pill (travels to specific locations) developed - 1992
Pentium processor introduced - 1993
First E-Book - 1993
Stephen King's short story, an excerpt from Nightmares and
Dreamscapes,
sold for $5.00 a copy.
Pentium Bug Revealed - 1994
A floating point bug in Intel's first Pentium chip was
announced in the Electrical
Engineering Times.
Java (computer language) developed - 1995
Windows 95 Released - 1995
By Microsoft on August 24, 1995
Dual-Processor PC - 1995
The Dell Optiplex DGX system featured a pair of intel processors.
Antimatter created in a lab - 1996
Electric Car Debuts - 1996
The first electric vehicle to be mass produced was released
in Dec. Of 1996. The
EV1
manufactured by General Motors was not for sale, but could be leased.
First Commercial HDTV
Broadcast - 1996
A TV station in Raleigh, North Carolina broadcast the first high
definition
transmission.
First Photos from Mars - 1997
The Sojourner, a robot from the Mars Pathfinder, landed on the surface of
Mars
and began transmitting images back to Earth.
AOL takes over Compuserve -
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