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 | Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML and the World Wide Web. ARPAnet
shuts down, the Internet has 300,000 hosts. Archie, the
first Internet search engine is developed at McGil University in
Montreal |
| Toronto Ontario - Toronto loses bid to host 1996
Olympic Games; IOC chooses Atlanta over Athens,
then Toronto; will be 100th Anniversary
of modern games. |
| 1990 brought the beginnings of many promising scientific and
technological developments, such as the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope |
| The fledgling World Wide Web was discovered, from it's obscurity in
the government and education society! |
| The end of a crucial alliance between PC software giants IBM and Microsoft. As
Microsoft's Windows success was taking the software company to new heights --
surpassing the $1 billion mark, a first for PC software companies -- IBM felt
its stake in OS/2 was under attack and
the split between IBM and Microsoft came out later in the year. |
| Ottawa Ontario - Canada sends squadron of F-18 fighter jets, with 450 pilots and
flight crew, to Persian Gulf" (September 14). |
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The CN Tower's 187-story lookout affords
superb views of Toronto, the financial and cultural center of Canada.
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