Word: control
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn design Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) for Linking different computer networks...
...ionosphere and using the reflection to measure its altitude. By World War II, British scientists had refined the technology, and the government began to dot the coast of England with civil-defense radar stations. As the hardware got simpler, radar found its way into airplanes, boats and air-traffic-control towers, improving navigation and ensuring that even a cow-pasture airport could operate safely. By the end of the century, the same basic technology was being used to steer spacecraft, track storms and help police catch speeders--proof that even the most arcane science can pay very pedestrian dividends...
...movie Soylent Green) predicted a New York City crammed with 35 million people, each allotted a meager four square yards of living space. That novel is set today--in 1999. It was published in 1966. The scenario made sense back then, before the advent of widespread birth control. All you had to do was follow the exponential curves...
...endocrinologists Gregory Pincus, John Rock and C.R. Garcia develop the birth-control pill...
...Doctors in Los Angeles alert the Centers for Disease Control to five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in gay men, one of the earliest signs of the AIDS epidemic...