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Internet
"World Wide Web. The beginning of the decade changed the world forever with the birth of the internet as we know it. In 1990 the World Wide Web sucked us in and America Online raked it in as one of the earliest providers of internet services and email." (abc15.com). Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf have been credited for creating the internet. -
Text Messaging
"The SMS concept was first developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. The first text message was sent years later on December 3rd, 1992 from Neil Papworth, a former developer at Sema Group Telecoms." (mobivity.com). Texting has changed the world entirely and is one of the ways we communicate most today. -
Sony Playstation
"The game-changing PlayStation sported a sleek design and CD format, meaning games were bigger, 3D-capable and with superior sound to what came before it. Within a decade, PlayStation became the first games console in history to sell over 100 million units worldwide." (playstation.com) Released 1994 in Japan. Mary Bellis and Ken Kutaragi played major roles in the invention of the first Sony playstation. -
Nintendo 64 Game Console
The company Nintendo is credited for creating the Nintendo 64. The man who made Nintendo is Hiroshi Yamauchi. This console is named after it's 64-bit central processing unit. -
Google
In,1998 the largest search engine of all time was created. Founded "by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that is a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc. More than 70 percent of worldwide online search requests are handled by Google, placing it at the heart of most Internet users' experience" (britannica.com)