Assignment
1-5
Culture
and Society: Interactions
1980-Present
Historical Events
John Lennon is assassinated
Assassinated attempt on Pope John Paul
Assassinated attempt on President Ronald Reagan
First woman appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
Michael Jackson releases top song Thriller
Sally Ride becomes 1st American women in space
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
DNA first used to convict criminals
New York Stock Exchange suffers huge drop on
"Black Monday"
Berlin Wall comes down
1990's
Official end to the cold war
World Trade center bombed
O.J. Simpson arrested for double murder
Oklahoma City Bombing
President Clinton is impeached
Columbine High School shootings
Largest terror attack on U.S. soil, to be
forever remembered as 911
Space Shuttle Columbia explodes
Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans killing many
and leaving more homeless
First African American President is elected
Internet Events
1980's
Computer Science Network is started as CSNET
CSNET and BITNEC merge to form CREN - to support
higher education
Domain Name System is designed
1990's
Use of the internet grows exponentially
Fear of the Y2K bug
"I Love You" virus hits thousands of
computers, costing billions in repairs
Microsoft is ordered by U.S. government to split
Personal home computers break the 1Ghz barrier
Wikipedia is launched
Apple starts the iPod
Emergence of Web 2.0
Facebook is launched
YouTube is launched
USB flash drives replace floppy disks
Twitter is launched
Apple debuts iPhone
Google street view is launched
1980's
Pac-Mac video game is released
Super Mario Brothers game is released
Tetris game is released
Start of Game Boy arcade games
Playstation gaming system
Nintendo 64 gaming system
2000's
Mind control headsets become available for
gamers
Microsoft Windows video games
Playstation 2 gaming system
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