Genesis Decade #4 (1980 – 1989)
The 1980s
Personal Computer Explosion, Cyber Culture & Synthwave Era — Arcade renaissance and desktop publishing.
The 1980s Full Decade Collection
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10-Year Epoch Matrix (1980 – 1989)
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1980
366 Days
Pac-Man Arcade Game Released.
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1981
365 Days
First Space Shuttle Launch.
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1982
365 Days
First Digital Emoticon Proposed.
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1983
365 Days
TCP/IP Internet Transition.
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1984
366 Days
Apple Macintosh Introduced.
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1985
365 Days
First .com Domain Registered.
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1986
365 Days
Voyager 2 Uranus Flyby.
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1987
365 Days
Montreal Protocol Signed.
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1988
366 Days
The Year 1988 Temporal Registry.
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1989
365 Days
Invention of the World Wide Web.
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Top 1980s Historic Landmarks
Curated moments from the 1980s Genesis Decade
✦ Pac-Man Arcade Game Released
Pac-Man Arcade Game Released
Namco releases the Pac-Man arcade video game in Japan. It becomes a massive pop culture icon and the best-selling arcade cabinet.
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✦ First Space Shuttle Launch
First Space Shuttle Launch
The Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-1, marking the first orbital flight of NASA's reusable Space Transportation System.
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✦ First AIDS Cases Reported
First AIDS Cases Reported
The CDC publishes a report describing the first recognized cases of what would later be identified as AIDS, marking the start of the global epidemic's public record.
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✦ IBM Personal Computer Announced
IBM Personal Computer Announced
IBM introduces its model 5150 PC, standardizing the open hardware architecture that would dominate desktop computing for decades.
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✦ First Digital Emoticon Proposed
First Digital Emoticon Proposed
Computer scientist Scott Fahlman proposes the first smileys :-) and :-( on a Carnegie Mellon BBS, starting digital text-based emotion.
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✦ Compact Disc Commercial Launch
Compact Disc Commercial Launch
The first commercially available compact disc (CD), Billy Joel's 52nd Street, is launched in Japan, beginning the digital audio era.
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