Science and Technology
Here are some of the most important happenings regarding science technology, and inventions in the 80s
Japan passes the US as the largest automaker in the world
The World Health Organization considers small pox to be completely eradicated
Pac Man is introduced in the U.S.
The first IBMs are put into production
The FCC gives private satellite dishes "the ok"
The space shuttle Columbia is launched
There are reports of AIDS striking homosexual men
The US Department of Agriculture tries making ketchup a school vegetable
The first computer virus, written by Rich Skrenta, escapes into the wild
61 year old Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart, with which he lived 112 days
The ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, becoming the Internet on January 1, 1983
The Apple Macintosh is introduced by the Apple Corporation
In Jackson, Michigan, a robot in a factory crushes a worker against a safety in the first robot related death in the US