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Internet was born
The World Wide Web, Internet Protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) are created by Tim Berners-Lee. -
Hubble Space Telescope
One of the largest telescopes in the world, the Hubble Space Telescope, was launched into orbit in 1990. The Hubble was designed to be maintained and serviced by astronauts and is still operating today. -
Yahoo was born
Yahoo! was started at Stanford University. It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". -
java
1995 saw the first appearance of the Java programming language -
The first Nintendo game system 64 appears on shelves
September 29, 1996 was the official launch date of the Nintendo 64 game console in the United States, not to mention Super Mario 64, the first 3-D Mario adventure (and one of the earliest free-roaming, polygon-based 3-D action games period