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1986
Aldus introduces PageMaker, first page design software
first genetically engineered vaccine for humans
US business uses 2.5 trillion pages of paper
number of computers in US exceeds 30 million
CBS sells stake in Prodigy, later acquired by AOL
Hollinger buys UK Daily Telegraph
Bloomsbury Publishing founded
General Electric buys RCA
Merv Griffin sells production company Merv Griffin Enterprises
to Coca-Cola for US$250m
676 cinema screens in Australia
merger of DDB Needham and BBDO
Capital Cities Communications buys American Broadcasting network
for US$3.5bn to create Capital Cities-ABC
Jupiter Communications founded
HBO scrambles its signals
cable shopping networks
Burroughs merges with Sperry to form Unisys
Academic American Encyclopedia is first major reference
work published on CD-ROM
Microsoft Windows 1.0
Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission
Act
Beniger's The Control Revolution: Technological & Economic
Origins of the Information Society
Schiller's Information & the Crisis Economy
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) formed
News sells stake in Network Ten Holdings
to Westfield Capital Corporation for $840m
Westfield subsidiary Northern Star buys other stations, establishes
TEN tv network
1987
first debit card in UK
Goldsmith sells most of stake
in Generale Occidentale
Apple spins off application software business as Claris
est. 1 million mobile phone subscribers in US
Murdoch buys Herald & Weekly
Times group, Harper & Row and South China Morning Post
South African Associated Newspapers formally changes name
to Times Media Ltd (TML)
Bond gives Kerry Packer
$1bn for Nine television network
WPP buys J Walter Thompson for US$566m
Thorn EMI sells consumer electronics operations
financial crash
Warwick Fairfax unsuccessfully privatises Fairfax group
1988
Edipresse formed
first internet worm
Evergreen Media established
Pearson buys 35% stake in Recoletos
Pearson buys Les Echos
4.7 million microcomputers, 120,000 minicomputers and 11,500
mainframes sold in US
first transatlantic fibre optic cable completed
Reserve Bank of Australia releases world's first plastic banknotes
Commonwealth Privacy
Act
Prodigy videotex service - IBM and Sears Roebuck joint venture
BCE sells printing plants to Quebecor
1989
Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) launches Eurosport service
premiere of The Simpsons
fatwah against Salmon Rushdie for The Satanic Verses
Cosser and Curran buy control of TEN
Network from Lowy interests for $27m
Steve Vizard and Andrew Knight form Artist Services production
house
Hicks founds Capstar Communications
Qintex fails to consumate takeover of MGM/UA studio and film
library
Qintex Group goes bust
GridPad laptop features touch-sensitive pad that recognizes
handwriting
launch of Murdoch's SkyTV in UK
Time merges with Warner
Sony buys Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star
Pictures from Coca-Cola for US$3.4bn
Sony buys Loews cinema chain
WPP buys Ogilvy & Mather for US$825m
AT&T buys cable giant TCI
merger of Thomson Newspapers and International Thomson
est. 138 million subscriber phone lines in US; global figure
is est. 496 million
1990
World Wide Web described by Tim Berners-Lee
Ashton Scholastic buys M&M Educational Suppliers Inc and
Sunshine Book Fairs
Telecom New Zealand privatised
Tamedia acquires 49% stake in Berner
Zeitung
Legge Mammi creates Berlusconi/RAI duopoly
Electronic Frontier Foundation founded
McCaw Cellular Communications acquires 52% interest in LIN
Broadcasting
first commercial provider of dial-up net access
first palmtop computers
99% of US households have at least one radio
Moravec's Mind Children
US business uses 4 trillion pages of paper
Packer regains control of Nine television network
Abril buys Editora Primavera in Spain
WPP buys Young & Rubicam group for
US$4.7bn
UK Broadcasting Act abolishes Independent Broadcasting Austhority
(IBA) and establishes Independent Television Commission (ITC)
BSkyB established
Hoovers online service founded
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