1980s continued
The Montreal Protocol saw the international agreement for the phasing out of CFC production to reduce the harmful effects of damage to the Ozone layer .
Worldwide vaccination led to the end of Smallpox .
Buckminsterfullerene was created in the lab – the start of nanotechnology .
Microprocessors – although development started in 1959 they really took off in the 1980s . Nowadays microchips are everywhere – there are even proposals that humans should be microchipped .
1990s
Dolly the Sheep was the first cloned mammal from an adult cell .
dolly . roslin . ed . ac . uk / facts / thelife-of-dolly
Dark energy – The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope brought evidence that , against expectation , the expansion of the universe was accelerating . Dark energy is the term for the 68 % of the universe that isn ’ t accounted for but which must exist to explain the acceleration .
science . nasa . gov / astrophysics / focus-areas / what-is-dark-energy
The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee .
webfoundation . org / about / vision / history-of-the-web
The first digital camera system was produced by Kodak .
Open Source software and services began in the 1990s ( eg . Linux ), while the 2000s saw the rise of free collaborative websites ( eg . Wikipedia ).
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