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1991
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1991
Elsevier buys Pergamon from Robert
Maxwell
Matsushita buys MCA
Ashton Scholastic buys Bookshelf from Horwitz Grahame
Paxson Broadcasting founded
Berlusconi and de Benedetti
clash over control of Mondadori
IBM's first revenue decline in 45 years
Bond group receivers float Western
Australian Newspapers (WAN)
Line Mode Browser - the first internet browser
Australia as An Information Society report
CNN dominates news coverage worldwide during Gulf War
Denver trial of VOD - over 1 000 titles but no profits
over 4 billion videocassette rentals in the US
TV1 becomes Scandinavian broadcaster SBS
75% of US homes reported to own VCRs, 60% have cable tv
Zimmermann releases first version of PGP
US Telephone Consumer Protection Act
UN Draft Declaration of the Rights of the World's Indigenous
Peoples
Feist copyright
decision by US Supreme Court
Seven tv network assets incorporated
separately in reconstruction after collapse of Qintex
1992
US cable television revenue reaches US$22 billion
Guardian holdings reorganised as Guardian
Media Group plc (GMG)
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) founds Euronews
GMG buys Observer
US has 10 million mobile phone subscribers
closure of Spokane Chronicle
900 million TV sets in the world; 201 million in the US
first use of the phrase "surfing the net" by Jean Armour Polly
first SMS
to a mobile phone
Moving Picture Experts Group agree on MPEG Audio Layer III,
aka MP3
at least 50 US cities have competing cable services
Australian Disability Discrimination Act
US Audio Home Recording Act
Maastricht Treaty on European Union
Gilder's Life After Television
Cisneros, Perenchio and Televisa consortium buys Univision
for US$550m
EMI buys Virgin Music Group for US$960m from Richard Branson
and Fujisankei
Egmont merges with Nordisk
Film
Lonrho sells George Outram to MBO
Lonrho sells Scottish & Universal Newspapers (SUN) to
Trinity for £45m
TCI chair John Malone predicts "500
channel universe"
US National Science Foundation appoints NSI to manage .com,
.net, and .org domain names
CNET established
1993
merger of Elsevier and Reed International
DVD invented by Toshiba
Stephens buys Donrey
V-chip proposed for TV content control
Mosaic - first graphical internet browser
Ashton Scholastic sells M&M Educational Suppliers
Kodak and Apple
produce first digital still image camera for consumers
Zell/Chilmark takes control of Jacor
for US$70m
New Zealand Privacy Act
Chancellor Broadcasting formed
Seven tv network listed on Australian stock exchange
Belusconi forms Forza Italia
1994
Elsevier
buys LEXIS-NEXIS
Granada buys rest of LWT for £670m
Rogers buys Maclean Hunter for C$3.1bn
first digital TV service - DirecTV in the US by satellite
BSkyB floated
Netscape
Village controls Austereo radio
in Australia
Viacom buys Blockbuster and Paramount
Norsk Arbeiderpresse becomes A-pressen
Perscombinatie-Meulenhoff becomes PCM
Wegener buys regional newspaper
publisher Sijthoff Pers
135 million PCs worldwide
US government privatises internet management
first ad on the World Wide Web, for Wired magazine
first demonstration of Java
Cyberspace & the American Dream manifesto
Pizza Hut sells pizzas over the net
First Virtual, first cyberbank
Rheingold's The Virtual Community
Birkerts' The Gutenberg Elegies
Cordell proposes Byte
Tax
Canter & Siegel's How to Make a Fortune on the Information
Superhighway
Goldstein's Copyright's Highway: The Law & Lore of Copyright
from Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox
interactive TV introduced in US
1995
est 25 million mobile phone subscribers in US
first US NTIA Falling Through The Net report
Amazon.com
founded
Pearson buys Grundy Worldwide
Seagram buys MCA
Evergreen buys Pyramid for US$316m
49% of Euronews sold to Goldsmith-controlled
Générale Occidentale
Cox buys Times Mirror Cable Television
Riverdeep established in 1995
Steve Wiener forms Cine UK (Cineworld chain)
Westinghouse buys CBS, subsequently
changes name to CBS
Microsoft's
Internet Explorer browser
Sony demonstrates flat-screen TV set
Iomega markets Zip drive
RealAudio lets internet users hear in near real-time
Marty Rimm 'cyberpanic'
Negroponte's Being Digital
Stoll's Silicon Snake Oil
EU Data Protection Directive
global Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property (TRIPS)
Disney buys ABC network
VeriSign
founded
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