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Posted, Dec. 16, 2004
Updated, Oct. 26, 2007


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New Media Timeline (1989)

By David Shedden (more by author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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                TECHNOLOGY

  • The U.S. Department of Defense sponsored ARPANET computer network, which began as an experimental network of four computers in 1969, is decommissioned and replaced by the faster NSFNET network. (NSFNET will continue until 1995.)

  • Intel introduces its 486 microprocessor.

  • Nintendo releases its Game Boy handheld  game console.

  • The Corporation for Research and Education Networking (CREN) is started. It supports low-cost access to worldwide electronic networking. (The BITNET and CSNET networks helped develop CREN.)
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               THE MEDIA

  • Newspapers continue to experiment with audiotex technologies. Audiotex customers use their telephone to dial a local number, then enter a four-digit code for news, stock quotes, weather, sports, and other content.

  • The Source, an early online service designed for the general public, is purchased by CompuServe. The Source is soon discontinued.
    CompuServe is one of the largest dial-up systems for electronic bulletin board (BBS) access.

  • News Example:
    June 5, 1989 --
    "Beijing Death Toll at Least 300; Army Tightens Control of City But Angry Resistance Goes On",
    New York Times.
    (Story available from
    database vendor services.)
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