In 1989, the year Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web, the golden toad was seen for the last time in Costa Rica's forests.
The events
- Last sighting of the golden toad1989 · Monteverde, Costa Rica. On 15 May 1989 the last male of the bright orange golden toad, found only on a few square kilometres, was seen in Monteverde's cloud forest. Drought and a fungal disease of amphibians are blamed. The species is now listed as extinct; that year, the Berlin Wall fell.
- Invention of the World Wide Web1989 · CERN, Geneva. In 1989 British scientist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN proposed a system of hypertext documents linked over the internet. Opened to the public in 1991, the World Wide Web turned the internet, which grew out of the US ARPANET, into a global medium.
More amazing facts
- 1957 1957: the USSR launched the first satellite, and six countries signed the Treaty of Rome, the seed of the future EU.
- 1957 1957: Ghana became one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to throw off colonial rule, and the USSR launched the first satellite.
- 1960 In 1960, 17 African countries gained independence — more than in any other single year in history.
- 1961 Gagarin flew into space in April 1961; that August, the Berlin Wall went up.
- 1977 Star Wars came out in May 1977, and in September France carried out its last execution by guillotine.
- 1984 · 1989 Tetris was invented in Moscow in 1984, five years before Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web at CERN.