Istock 516786208

90'sComputerTech

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    a. 1990
    b. World Wide Web
    c. Tim Berners-Lee
    d. This Invention has been enhanced in many ways by many people and is now a daily tool used by almost everyone. It is a platform for companies to advertise, for citizens to express themselves and for random nonsense use.
  • Mosaic Web Browser

    Mosaic Web Browser
    a. 1993
    b. Mosaic Web Browser
    c. Marc Andreessen
    d. The start of the world wide web being popularized. It was popular also for using FTP, NNTP and Gopher protocols simultaneously.
  • Text Messaging

    Text Messaging
    a. 1984-1995
    b. Text MSG
    c. Friedhelm Hillebrand & Bernard Ghillebaert
    d. Although it was invented in the 80's the first text was never sent until 92 and even then wasn't widely used into much further. I decided to put it down as 95 since it makes the most since for tech in public use.
  • DVD's

    DVD's
    a. 1993-96
    b. DVD's
    c. Surprisingly it was a collaboration of multiple companies in creating this tech
    d. They are not as widely used now but in the 90's and 00's they were widely used for video sharing for movies, personal videos and corporates use.
  • Google

    Google
    a. 1998
    b. Google
    c. Larry Page and Sergey Brin
    d. Although it isn't exactly a hardware device it is still a type of software for software that brought everything together and basically created a place for everything to come together. Kind of like the motherboard of the world wide web.