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Text Messaging
With 23 billions text messages being sent per day worldwide, and the seemingly simplicity of it, you would be surprised to find how difficult it was to people to figure it out. It wasn't until 1992 that Neil Papworth sent the first text to Richard Jarvis who received it on his Nokia. Of course phones would receive keyboards for many years, so Neil had to send his message saying 'Merry Christmas' on his personal computer. -
World Wide Web
Arguably the most important and impactful computer invention of all time, the WorldWideWeb changed how we considered computers forever. This invention all everyone access to the internet, the ability to easily browse any kind of website from a variety of devices. The Turing Award was given to Tim Berners-Lee for this revolutionary invention. -
Sony PlayStation
Video Gaming is one of the largest computer based markets in the world with a market size of $365 billion. Sony Interactive Entertainment being the largest video game company in the world with an annual gaming revenue of $28 billion. In 1994 is where that all began, with Sony releasing their first console, apply named the Playstation. This piece of computer history was incredibly innovative in the field at the time, exploded in popularity, and changed video game history forever. -
Amazon
In todays world Amazon is part of everyday life. Many of us order dozens of things online every week from Amazon to show up on our doorstep the very next day in a box. The company worth over a trillion dollar came from humble beginnings however, in 1995 Jeff Bezos started Amazon as an innovative online book store, taking online 1 month to deliver to all 50 states and 45 different countries. -
DVD's
DVD's, the successor of the laser disk, and what many considered a technology that will last decades. In 1995 four large tech companies Sony, Philips Electronics, Toshiba, and Time Warner agreed that they needed a common format for their second-generation compact disks. Many companies followed suit, and DVD's soon became a household item to store information including games and movies.