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In 1983, Tech companies Philips and Sony created the CD-ROM standard, which increased widespread portable data storage capacity to 703MB, from 1.44MB of the 3.5" Floppy Disk. -
Invented by Steve Jobs, this was the first Personal Computer with a Graphical User Interface -
The Intel i386 ran almost four times faster (16 megahertz) than its predecessor, the PC XT (4.77 megahertz), increasing the ability of the PC to multitask and run complex operations -
Danish Computer Scientist Bjarne Stroustrup creates C++, which is platform-independent and allowed for greater memory management. C++ was used in the creation of PlayStation, Xbox, Adobe Photoshop, and many other applications. -
Tim Berners-Lee creates the concept of a "web of information" using HTML, which became known as the World Wide Web we use today