1980-2000

• 1981 - The first IBM personal computer, code-named "Acorn," Is intoduced
• 1983 - Apple's Lisa is the first personal computer with a GUI.
• 1985

  • Microsoft announces Windows, according to encyclopedia Britannica. This was the company's response to Apple's GUI
  • Commodore unveils the Amiga 1000, which features advanced audio and video capabilities
• 1985 - the first dot-com domain name is registered on March 15, years before the WWW would ark the formal beginning of Internet history.
• 1986 - Compaq brings the Deskpro 386 to market. Its 32-bit architecture provides as speed comparable to mainframes
• 1990 Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
• 1993 - The Pentium microprocessor advance the use of graphics and music on PCs
• 1994 - PCs become gaming machines
• 1996 - Sergey Brin and Larry Page develop the google search engine at Standford University
• 1997 - Microsoft invest $150 million in Apple, which was struggling at the time, ending Apple's court case against Microsoft in which it alleged that Microsoft copied the "look and feel" of its operating system
• 1999 - The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires