The silicon revolution that started back then with the personal computer, led to the Internet in the 1990s and broadband in the 2000s.
This had come to pass in Japan in the late 1990s and again in the early 2000s, but had not occurred in most Western countries since the late 1950s.
For a brief period, starting in the early 1990s and ending in the late 2000s, there was a widespread belief that the internet ought to stay open, allowing anyone with a good idea to present it online and have it evaluated based on its own merit and not on the size of the wallet supporting it.
There was relatively low unemployment up to the 1980s and again in the 1990s and 2000s.
Spider-Man wasn't conceived as anything special -- the character first appeared in issue 15 of the Marvel title "Amazing Fantasy" -- but his popularity quickly made the superhero the subject of his own comic book, followed by several TV series and, in the 2000s, three blockbuster movies.
Cross border equity tie-ups between financial firms have enjoyed mixed success to put it mildly (think HSBC and Household Finance in the 2000s, or Deutsche Bank and Morgan Grenfell in the 1990s).
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Examples include the Netherlands in the mid-1990s and Sweden in the mid-2000s.
As a city council member and controller in the 1990s and 2000s, Ms. Parker built a political coalition of liberals, gays and business.
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Emerging markets got to the party a little later, but the rampant brand hegemony of the 1990s and most of the 2000s in BRIC countries and beyond gave another billion consumers a dizzying array of products and services to acquire and aspire to.
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Recall what happened to energy stocks in the late 1970s, when oil prices spiked, defense names during the Reagan arms buildup in the 1980s, media and telecom in the late 1990s, housing shares in the mid-2000s, and social media in 2012.
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He's stayed vigorous into old age, guiding Harman International into a dominant position in the auto navigation and entertainment systems business in the late '90s and early 2000s.
Current opinion polls offer a stark contrast to the executive branch confidence ratings that hovered between 62 percent and 72 percent in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In retrospect, HPs move into services with stable large corporate accounts was timely when the other division sales weakened, and its restructuring in the mid-2000s made it a much more leaner and more focused organization.
The same thing happened with browsers: intense competition in the late 1990s between Netscape and Microsoft, followed by a period in the early 2000s where Microsoft was utterly dominant and browser innovation slowed.
The blogging phenomenon that began in the early 2000s and the commenting sections on publisher Web sites were just the beginning.
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He was born in Algeria in the 1970s and served in the Algerian army before joining the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which was heavily involved in the Algerian insurgency in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Commentators have marveled at his mischaracterization of the gold standard and his defensiveness at the suggestion that loose Fed monetary policy of the early and mid-2000s played a role in causing the housing bubble and thus the Great Recession.
Gold (and, for a time, housing) was a better investment than stocks in the 2000s, and we are struggling to recover from the consequences of this fact today.
U.S. carbon-dioxide output rose steadily in the 1990s and 2000s, peaking in 2007.
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Specifically, the impact of eco-harmful events has gone from an abnormal return of -.42% in the 1980s to -.66% in the 1990s and as high as -1.12% in the 2000s.
She said she met Fraser in the early 2000s and moved in with him after her divorce in 2007.
She met Mr Fraser in the early 2000s and moved in with him after she finalised a divorce in 2007.
Fuelled by booming aerospace and high-tech industries, population growth was of 1.5% a year in the metropolitan area in the 1990s, and a record 1.98% a year in the 2000s.
Cell phone service in the United States started in 1981 and from then until the early 2000s, wireless device makers ( Nokia, Motorola, and others) built the devices they wanted to build and took them to the network operators.
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When the later Star Wars films were released in the 1990s and 2000s, although they did well at the box office, they were generally not well-received by fans.
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After the 1990s was devoted to discovering the genes that play a role in muscular dystrophy and the 2000s to researching possible new therapies, this is the decade when the resulting new drugs will be introduced, says Louis Kunkel, a muscular-dystrophy researcher at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Some of the funds set up by big American firms in the early 2000s have stayed and thrived, notably the subsidiary of Accel Partners, which has invested in 42 European start-ups.
He started out in the 125cc class in the early 2000s before moving up to MotoGP in 2006, and won the world title the following year and again in 2011.
Tony Blair and Bill Clinton: Archetypal baby boomers who grew up to rule their respective nations in the 1990s and 2000s.
Even as energy prices rose and nuclear power plant capacity was boosted in the late 1990s and early 2000s, excess inventory and uranium from decommissioned Russian warheads kept prices low.
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