1989-1999 Significant inventions in computer

  • World wide web

    World wide web
    World wide web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. Its an information system that others can access documents and information on the internet. It originally had a bunch of documents. Now there is a ton of different information and things on the world wide web.
  • Smart phone

    Smart phone
    The first smart phone was called Simon Personal Communicator or IBM Simons was invented by engineer Frank Canova. It has a touch screen used with a stylus. The battery life only lasted an hour. Smart phone screens have and the battery life have improved greatly since the first smart phone was invented. Smart phones have made a big impact on peoples lives now a days to have a small computer at our figure tips.
  • Zip Drive

    Zip Drive
    Iomega invented the Zip drive. It's a removable floppy disk that stored information. It's enhanced our life's as a stepping stone to a removable storage device for information on computers. Being able to move documents and data from one computer to another is very helpful with tasks.
  • Google

    Google
    Larry Page and Sergey Brin first created Google. Is a search engine on the internet. They creators created an algorithm that determine a rank of a search by how many times a word shows up on a page. Google has made it more helpful when searching for anything on the internet.
  • USB

    USB
    USB (Universal Serial Bus) was invented by a group engineers led by Ajay V. Bhatt. It's a port/connection for cables to connect different devices to a computer. It has enhanced our life's by making computer be able to do more depending on what it's connected to.