History Timeline

1976 - 2000 AD

1975 - 1979 Khmer Rouge rules Cambodia under Pol Pot
1976 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form Apple Computers Company
   "The Monkey Wrench Gang" published (author: Edward Abbey)
1977 Founding of Oracle Corporation
1979 Three-mile island nuclear disaster
   The first cellular phone is released in Tokyo
   Ayatollah Khomeini adopts Islamic constitution for Iran
1980 MSDOS is developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
   Beginning of postmodernism
   Zimbabwe gains independence
   Theory that a comet struck the earth 65 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs is introduced
1980 - 1982 Civil war in El Salvador
1980 - 1988 Iraq invades Iran and they have war
1981 MTV debuts
   First space shuttle flight
1982 "Blade Runner" is released, introduces the term 'cyberpunk'
   Israel invades Lebanon
   Falklands war between Britain and Argentina
1983 CD is introduced
   TCP/IP is adopted by ARPANET users
   Conflict in Sudan where more than 1.5 million people die
1984 William Gibson coins the term 'cyberspace'
   DNA fingerprinting method devised
1985 Windows 1.0 is released
   Commodore Amiga becomes the first true multimedia, personal computer
1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster
   Chernobyl nuclear disaster
1988 Macromedia releases 'Director'
   Paul C. Bragg publishes "The Miracle of Fasting"
1989 Tianammen Square protest and massacre in Beijing, China
   Collapse of Berlin Wall, East and West Germany reunite
   Founding of America Online (AOL)
   Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska
   Tim Berners-Lee proposes a global hyptertext system, the World Wide Web
   Manuel Noriega deposed by US troops in Panama
1990 World Wide Web is developed (WWW), Bill Gates becomes richest man in    the world
   Iraq invades Kuwait
   Persian Gulf War
   Collapse of Soviet Union, end of Cold War
   Lech Walesa elected president of Poland
   Namibia gains independence
   Launch of Hubble Space Telescope
1991 MP3 introduced
1992 Windows 3.1 is introduced
   HTML debuts
   Breakup of Yugoslavia into civil war
1993 Mosaic is released
   Eritrea breaks from Ethiopia
1994 Suicide of Kurt Cobain (of rock band Nirvana)
1995 Oklahoma City bombing
   Windows 95 is released
   RealAudio is introduced
   O.J. Simpson acquitted of murder charges
1996 First cloned sheep
   DVD introduced
   Affordable, digital cameras become commonplace
1997 Chess master Gary Kasparov plays a chess match against IBM's
   Deep Blue computer and loses
1998 Petronas Towers are completed
1999 Jack Kevorkian was sentenced to prison for 10 to 25 years
   Debut of Napster
2000 George W. Bush vs. Al Gore, presidential election, the outcome is still disputed, although W. won the election
   Battle in Seattle: protestors square off against police over WTO