Modern Era · North America · Technology

1984

Apple Macintosh

January 24, 1984

During the third quarter of the Super Bowl, a commercial directed by Ridley Scott showed a woman smashing a screen of an Orwellian Big Brother. Two days later Apple introduced the Macintosh, the first affordable personal computer with a mouse and a graphical interface. Its founder was twenty-eight and wearing a bow tie.

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Also in 1984 (3 other events on record)

Bhopal Gas Disaster · South Asia · Disaster
Indira Gandhi assassinated · South Asia · Politics
Thriller dominates the world · North America · Culture

Before and after in North America

Before: October 25, 1983: US invades Grenada
After: September 19, 1985: Mexico City earthquake

Before and after in Technology

Before: 1982: CD released
After: March 12, 1989: Berners-Lee proposes the Web

Era

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