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VCR
Jerome Lemelson received the patent in 1980 for the camcorder. JVC and Sony later announced the creation in 1982 for the masses. This completely revolutionized home video from a massive painstaking process to simple and convenient. It also added sound to the video! -
CD-ROM
Japanese company Denon developed the CD-ROM. In later years the CD-ROM was used to distribute software and data for computers and 5th gen video game consoles. -
Compact Disk
Co-developed by Sony and Philips, the compact disk was a superior way to store data that kept it from degrading over time -
Windows
Announced in 1983, Windows 1.0 wasn't released until 2 years later. I'm sure we're all pretty familiar with Windows seeing as it is now the most popular OS for general users, but when it was first released to compete against Apple's OS it achieved little popularity -
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Apple released the Macintosh computer with the brand new feature GUI. This opened up computer usage to the general public who did not feel comfortable or fully understand the DOS operating system.