90s technology timeline

By resnopt
  • Gameboy

    Gameboy
    game boy was invented by Nintendo chief engineer Gunpei Yokoi. Game boy was released in the US in 1990. Gameboy is a very nostalgic piece of technology for many, due to gaming being easily accessible.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    The WWW was made available to the public in 1991. the creator Tim Berners-Lee created this to be a universal linked information system. This has made it so easy to be able to access and create in an online plane.
  • Text messaging

    Text messaging
    in 1992 the first text message was sent by Neil Papworth. Text messaging has made it extremely easy to talk to people from anywhere in the world.
  • DVD

    DVD
    in 1997 DVD was released in the US. It was created in Japan in 1995 by many big corporations with no named inventor. DVD made watching movies easier and in a smaller package, replacing VHS.
  • MP3 player

    MP3 player
    MP3 player was invented by Tomislav Uzelac in 1998. The MP3 player was not extremely popular till the 2000s. Music was able to be listened to from a more compact device