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Compact Disk invented by Sony and Philips
The Compact Disk or CD was created which digitized music, photos, and data, and the CD was a big improvement over analog vinyl or tape. -
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1980's
The decade of the 1980's in terms of the progression of technology -
IBM PC or Personal Computer was released
International Business Machines or IBM releases the first widely successful personal computer that many businesses adopted for office work -
Nintendo Entertainment System video game system was released
Nintendo of Japan releases their very video game console which became very successful worldwide -
The Macintosh computer by Apple is released
The first commercial Graphical User Interface (GUI) computer was released, right after the famous 1984 Super Bowl ad was run by Apple Computer. -
Windows 1.0 was released by Microsoft Corporation
The beginnings of the most widely used computer operating system, Windows, started in 1985 with Windows 1.0 which was mostly an extension of MS-DOS