new company, NeXT, Inc., unveils the NeXT computer, featuring a 25-MHz Motorola 68030 processor. The NeXT is the first computer to use object-oriented programming in its operating system and an optical drive rather than a floppy drive.Apple introduces the Apple CD SC, a CD-ROM storage device allowing access to up to 650 MB of data. A virus called the "Internet Worm" is released on the Internet, disabling about ten percent of all Internet host computers. 1989Intel releases the 80486 chip (also called the 486), the world's first one-million-transistor microprocessor. The 486 integrates a 386 CPU and math coprocessor onto the same chip. Tim Berners-Lee develops software around the hypertext concept, enabling users to click on a word or phrase in a document and jump either to another location within the document or to another file. This software provides the foundation for the development of the World Wide Web, and is the basis for the first Web browsers. The World Wide Web is created at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland for use by scientific researchers.Microsoft's Word for Windows introduction begins the "Microsoft Office" suite adoption by millions of users. Previously, Word for DOS had been the second-highest-selling word processing package behind Word Perfect.1990Microsoft releases Windows 3.0, shipping 1 million copies in four months.A multimedia PC specification setting the minimum hardware requirements for sound and graphics components of a PC is announced at the Microsoft Multimedia Developers' Conference.The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) replaces ARPANET as the backbone of the Internet.Motorola announces its 32-bit microprocessor, the 68040, incorporating 1.2 million transistors. 1991Apple Computer launches the PowerBook series of battery-powered portable computers.Apple, IBM, and Motorola sign a cooperative agreement to design and produce RISC-based chips, integrate the Mac OS in...
