| 1976 | Europe • Great Britain | The single Anarchy in the U.K. by the Sex Pistols attacks middle class attitudes of commercialism and punk rock influences music and fashion. |
| 1977 | North America • USA | The film Star Wars is released. |
| 1980 | North America • USA | The Personal Computer (PC) is launched by IBM. |
| 1986 | North America • USA | The space shuttle Challenger explodes. |
| 1990 | North America • USA | Adobe releases Photoshop 1.0 for Apple Macintosh computers. |
| 1992 | North America • USA | Tim Berners-Lee develops the HTML protocol for exchanging information over the WWW. |
| 1993 | North America • USA | The play Angels in America by Tony Kushner is shown on Broadway. |
| 1993 | North America • USA | The first browser for WWW HTML pages is released by NCSA. |
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