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. |
1996 | North America • USA | Microsoft releases the first version of its Internet Explorer WWW browser. |
1997 | Europe • Great Britain | The Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. |