Technology in the 1990s

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  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    Tim Berners-Lee developed a technology where data relays back and forth from a client and server. This allowed users to access all kinds of content through a browser.
  • Text Messages

    Text Messages
    In 1992 a developer at Vodafone named Neil Papworth sent the first text message ever to Richard Jarvis. The text message simply read "Merry Christmas" and a few years later phones with the capability to send text messages where released in store. This has changed how everyone lives their daily lives with a new way to communicate.
  • Java (Programming Language)

    Java (Programming Language)
    Originally developed by James Gosling. Released with sun microsystems Java platform in 1995. The language has some components similar to c++.
  • Nintendo 64

    Nintendo released the N64 to compete with Sega and Sony. This gave gamers the option between different consoles with different games which still is going on today.
  • Google

    Google
    in 1998 2 students at Stanford Univesity Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google. This has become the largest search engine to allowing users to search throughout the web any way they wish.