Editing 1989 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* March 12 – [[Tim Berners-Lee]] submits a memorandum, titled "Information Management: A Proposal", to the management at [[CERN]] for a system that would eventually become the [[World Wide Web]].
* June 8 – [[GNU Bash]] is released.<ref name=BashBeta>
{{Cite newsgroup
  | title = Bash is in beta release!
  | author = Brian Fox (forwarded by Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
  | date = June 8, 1989
  | newsgroup = gnu.announce
  | url = https://groups.google.com/group/gnu.announce/msg/a509f48ffb298c35?hl=en
  | accessdate = October 28, 2010
}}
</ref>
* July 26 – A federal [[grand jury]] indicts [[Cornell University]] student [[Robert Tappan Morris, Jr.]] for releasing a [[computer virus]], making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 [[Computer Fraud and Abuse Act]] in the [[United States]].