Mobile phones become consumer products
~1983 · Event
Motorola's DynaTAC and later cellular networks make portable phone calls mass-market.
On these timelines: Master, The Digital Revolution
Around 1983
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)