Major IT Milestones (1980-1989)

  • TCP/IP Protocol

    TCP/IP Protocol

    TCP/IP Protocol became the standard for ARPANET,
    a military data technology. TCP/IP would later go on
    to be the data transmission standard for our modern
    day internet. "my ip address" by Collin Anderson is licensed under CC BY 2.0
  • DNS - Domain Name Service

    DNS - Domain Name Service

    DNS or Domain Name Services, or the way we reach
    websites by name instead of IP address was

    introduced.
    "Amazon" by Canonicalized is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Microsoft Windows 1.0

    Microsoft Windows 1.0

    Microsoft Windows was released, an operating system
    with a graphics user interface requiring 192 KB of RAM.
    Windows would later become the most popular OS in the world "Geschichtsrevisionismus debunked" by AndreasPizsa is licensed under CC BY 2.0
  • Nintendo Entertainment System

    Nintendo Entertainment System

    Nintendo Entertainment System released in the United States.
    Super Mario Bros would become one of the most iconic video
    game characters in the world. "Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Mattel Version" by Matthew Paul Argall is licensed under CC BY 2.0
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

    World Wide Web. Tim Berners Lee, a computer scientist at CERN
    began his hypertext project that resulted in the first webpage being
    created and later hosted in 1990 on the CERN webserver. "Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Jude Kelly" by Southbank Centre London is licensed under CC BY 2.0